Word: vag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vag swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...
This was four weeks, Vag thought. The practice slope had been gradual and smooth, with the sun melting a glaze on the snow. Vag had snapped his brand-new bindings shut, listening to the satisfactory double click as they went into place. Then he had squared his shoulders, hunched forward, adjusted his special plastic goggles, and pushed off down the hill. He had been near the bottom snow-plowing when something gave. Then he was lying on his side with his left ski pointing the wrong...
Four weeks, muttered Vag, to the thud of his crutches. This was for the birds. Aubody who wanted to freeze to death on a pair of boards had rocks in his head. He turned a corner, splashing into a puddle as he went, and brushed into somebody with horn-rimmed glasses and a furry-collared cost who Vag thought lived across the hall...
...Vag turned, carefully mounted the iey stops, and opened the door. After hanging up his coat, he walked towards the dimly lit living-room and the crowd of dancing figures. As he edged into the room the solemn, spaniel eyes of a plump girl, who was leaning against the wall, followed him. When Vag noticed her, she turned nonchalantly and began talking to another girl. A girl was coming toward him,; she was pretty and Vag decided to ask her to dance. He was about to do so when she asked him sweetly and energetically if he would like...
...bench into the other room where there was dancing. He got some cranberry punch from the table and sat down. He watched a girl while she danced with someone who steered into the corner where she would be less conspicuous. She had auburn hair, blue eyes and freckles; Vag stood up to see her while she danced away from view. He weaved through the elbows which swung out at him and went toward the couple. Just then someone else cut in, and Vag went back to the chair where he stood watching. He waited for what he thought...