Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely the Blumberg-Seibert aggressive approach that put silver medals around the necks of the Carrutherses. For the first time in memory, or at least since the Soviets started competing in Winter Games, in 1956, there was no commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine...
...into the ice," decided to retrench, withdrawing two triple jumps from his free-skating program. He still won the gold medal, but it was not with the dominating performance with which he wanted to cap his career. The English ice-dancing couple, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, gave the Winter Olympics its first utterly flawless exhibition: nine perfect marks of 6.0 from nine judges. But Gary Beacom, a Canadian skater, became so enraged over his marks from the judges that he kicked the rinkside barrier. American Ice Dancers Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert likewise lashed out in frustration, though...
...clamor at Zetra follows figure skating like a pack of sequin salesmen, for of all Olympic sports, none is as intensively handicapped-some might say predetermined. The four-year cycle between the Winter Games is spent shaking down a new generation of skaters in annual world championships. By the time the Olympic flame is lit again, a pecking order has been created that places ruthless demands on contenders and newcomers alike. For the favorites, there is the safety of incumbency. Like heavyweight champions, they cannot lose their titles on a draw: they must be beaten. But with that status come...
...alcohol and, of course, no refrigeration. For some of his deeper and more complex dissections, Leonardo would have had to spend a week or more with his nose in an open cadaver under conditions that would drive anyone else gagging from the room. No doubt he worked mostly in winter. Even so, it was dreadful work for a man of his fastidiousness, and he dryly noted in an aside to would-be anatomists, "You may perhaps be deterred by natural repugnance, or ... by the fear of passing the night hours in the company of these corpses, quartered and flayed...
Mondale had good reason to avoid offending labor. Union support will be a net plus in the Iowa caucuses, where voters must go out into the winter night to meetings that can last up to three hours. With apathy running high, a good organization is necessary to turn out voters. In addition, because voting is open at the caucus meetings, union shop stewards can cast a watchful eye on their members. One union alone, the National Education Association, hopes to produce 7,000 of the 100,000 voters expected to turn out for the Iowa caucuses...