Word: towed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this type because they refuse a cocktail at noon and always rush off to the slopes like Greta Garbo-"I vant to be alone!" They do parallel christies all the way down the slope, stand at the bottom and examine the trail they left, and then climb on the tow again with a determined expression, swearing softly...
...another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride on the tow...
...Tow cadets in the Artillery ROTC unit were awarded the Henry Nichols Erwin Prize, in recognition of their "manly qualities and exemplary character...
...then scarcely a month has passed without its complement of crinkled fenders and bumped-in sides, and scarcely a day without its close shaves. And we have watched, from our nearby vantage point, with something like fascination, as the police have come and gone investigating each crash, and the tow trucks have busily fetched and carried, and still no stop sign or traffic light has appeared...
...crunch last Tuesday, we girded up our photographers and walked down to the corner rather bored. But this was no ordinary, run-of-the-month crash; the laws of chance, always just, had finally entoiled a police car in the policeman's trap. There it was, hanging from a tow truck, with the price of half a dozen stop signs stamped on its fender and grille. Otherwise the scene was the same as all the others...