Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secondary ploy is the faulty-mechanism technique. Here the Skiman crawls to the side of the trail after a spill, feverishly snapping one binding and muttering Swedish cusswords. The bad binding can excuse several spills if worked right...
...extensive trail skiing, the "skiing-is-so-secondary" technique is the most useful. Unable to negotiate sharp turns, the Skiman may find himself banking off into the woods, an embarrassing situation at best. By the time his friends have reached him, the quick-thinking Skiman is tearing the bark from a tree and murmuring Latin words. The Skiman can then explain the rarity of the tree in the region, or some other suitable natural phenomena which excited his curiosity when he saw it form the trail...
...logical extension of "secondary" Skimanship is esthetic Skimanship. Here the sprawled Skiman does not even attempt to regain his feet. He arranges himself into a fairly comfortable sitting position, while gazing abstractly at a part of the trail. When his companions arrive, he waves them away, whispering "shadows of the trees across the trail . . . beautiful . . . note the purple on white, the blue on purple . . . wonderful...
...ladies liked Lieut. Gualtiero Gualtierotti, a handsome cavalryman with a toothbrush mustache and a roving eye. Behind his jingling spurs he left a trail of broken hearts. One day in 1936 a pair of black riding boots was delivered to his apartment in Rome. Said an accompanying note, written in a feminine hand: "To Rome's best pair of legs, from an admirer...
These are sad times. Since the turn of the century industrialization has captured the United States and turned many of the simple pleasures and traditions out to pasture. Like the spinning wheel, the pony express, and the riverboat, like the Post Road and the small country trail, many of the institutions which we associate with early America have been renovated or replaced--no longer considered adequate for the hustle and bustle of twentieth century America...