Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wooden skis on the side. Boix-Vives borrowed $50,000, bought the firm and laid off everyone but 27 ski makers, creating a lean, one-product shop. Allais soon devised a metal ski that helped France's Jean Vuarnet win a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, and Rossignol's reputation was made. Metal skis soared in popularity, but the firm was equipped to turn out only 7,500 pairs of metals, and the U.S.'s Head Skis cornered the market. Says Boix-Vives: "I learned an important lesson then. Always be ready...
...blackback!" exclaimed their leader. "And look over there, some goldeneyes." Fighting through thick reeds and tall grass, the bird watchers soon spotted other feathered friends: half a dozen stout-bodied, short-necked diving ducks called white-winged scoters, another type of waterfowl known as an old-squaw, several large, double-crested cormorants, and finally an American kestrel. Exulted the leader: "You really get psyched by this...
...barest dusting of powder in the high country, lifts are closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high that the county welfare office had to call...
During her solo, Monk's voice moves from full-throated chanting to feathered warbling to splintered wailing. Her last cry evokes the image of an old Eskimo, or ancient squaw, or fairy-tale granny calling the spirits to accompany her passage from her death...
...Valley Lovell 3 chairs 1,050 70 Lost Valley Auburn 2 chairs, T-bar 240 71 Mount Abram Locke Mills Chair, 3 T-bars 1,030 72 Pleasant Mountain Bridgton 3 chairs, 3 T-bars 1,200 73 Saddleback Rangeley 2 chairs, T-bar, J-bar 1,900 74 Squaw Mountain Greenville Chair, 2 T-bars 1,750 75 Sugarloaf Kingfield Gondola, 3 chairs, 6 T-bars 2,637 76 Sunday River Bethel Chair, 3 T-bars...