Word: toboggan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hill used his skills as a skier and surgeon in climbing to an area near the top of the mountain after a ski patrol vehicle broke down and caring for the 12 injured children during the descent by toboggan. The youngsters had ignored warnings of dangerous ice in a roped-off area. Ten were hospitalized...
...Space Toboggan. Professor of Aerodynamics Antonio Ferri of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is a skip man. He believes that a hypervelocity missile should spend only a short time in the heat-generating atmosphere, then soar up to peaceful space to cool off. Ferri's missile designed to follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride...
After sliding gently downhill for months, Wall Street's stock market went out for a short, whistling toboggan ride last week. It shot down to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, almost 70 points below the bull-market peak set last April...
...guests crammed every room in St. Moritz' 47 hotels. They schussed down the powdery slopes overlooking the little valley, tried the Olympia Ski Jump, which drops a perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing-for St. Moritz' crystal-clear air has 18% less oxygen than...
...crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill...