Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtful whether Joseph Sepp Froelich, sharp-eyed as he was, had ever noticed the quiet, unremarkable man who lived in one of the cottages, spent his time hanging around Sun Valley Lodge, watching the skaters during the indigo-shadowed afternoons, sitting in the café through the starlit evenings...
Froelich was one of the handsome Austrian and German experts whom W. Averell Harriman had brought to Idaho to teach Sun Valley colonists how to ski. Mr. Harriman had imported yodeling German waiters and musicians too, but Froelich and the other Skimeisters, Tyrolean hats cocked on their heads, were the climatic touch. They whizzed around the towering cornices of the hills, swooped like eagles over the white slopes of the Sawtooth Mountains. The ladies loved them...
This leaves as the best bets for this weekend Waterville Valley, 14 inches of base with four inches of power; Mt. Mansfield, 17 to 37 power; North Conway, 14 to 26 power; Pinkham Notch, 22 base with two powder; Jackson, 14 powder; Intervale, 12 powder; and Bartlett, eight powder...
...radiators salvaged from Shanghai houses which had been bombarded with Japanese steel; the hoarding of oil-the boatloads of it wheedled from the U.S. against the eventual drive for oil; the hoarding of young men-hardened to horror on the cold plains of Manchukuo and in the hot valley of the Yangtze. For the sake of the chips there had been abnegation: less rice, less fish, less charcoal, no taxi rides, a minimum of sake, stinting on geishas, wood-pulp clothes...
...with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...