Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table conversation in the Northern U.S. this winter seems complete without talk of the new ski slope or the latest office victim of an ill-conceived jump turn. Skiing is quickly coming of age as a major U.S. participant sport. Wherever there is snow, thousands are heading for the slopes and skiing's high, heady adventure; from New Hampshire to New Mexico and West Virginia to Washington State, skiers roll up record business for resort operators and equipment sellers. A dedicated band of cultists, skiers seem oblivious of skiing's built-in hazards. Asks...
...balance.'' but the scales are rapidly breaking down. All the King's men are agitating-city workers, rural tribesmen, worried businessmen and politicians squabbling for power. "I don't know where my people want to go," says the King. "But if they turn toward the East. I won't stand in their way. I'll abdicate...
...Literally, bottles. At the turn of the century, so many enterprising Cubans tried sneaking into athletic events by posing as waterboys that bottle carriers became the slang term for grafters...
...tight clutch of tar sand? If it can, the world's oil reserves may soon be doubled. The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...
Governor Kuroda explained that Yasokyo (Jesus religion) was frowned on by the Mikado. Undeterred, Clark lined up his 16 students and announced firmly: "It is my intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question...