Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by state prison inmates, are being erected. Even more is being done to feed the ravenous animals. Typically, winter kills 5% to 15% of the herds; this season more than half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last week near Kremmling, Colo., Gerrans and his crew took their Sno-Cat, a huge...
...Puerto Rican Winter Olympic team, first in the annals of the country and last to the bottom of the luge run, consists of one well-rounded American named George Tucker, who is particularly well rounded in the seat, where the number of mended holes in his suit suggests that Tucker occasionally arrives at the finish line without his sled...
...dream is close enough so that Tucker can reach for it. Though even as he does, it will be behind him. "I'll carry the flag," he says brightly, but adds ruefully, "if I'm able to by then." Of the 49 teams there, the winter record by twelve, is there one that is more representative of the Olympic ideal than the Puerto Rican...
...only one around, though, who does not seem to share a vision of Sarajevo as a perennial winter playground, the expressed motive of the Olympic organizers. And as far as the mountains go, the picture is gleaming. But the city, usually deep in snow long before now, is mired in mud. Central Yugoslavia has melted practically into spring. On the Mount Igman plateau, where the cross-country skiers will stride and slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump...
...little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President Lord Killanin spoke defensively about the very future of the Olympics. The question was actually posed: Should there be Olympic Games? Anyone who still regarded these quadrennial sports feasts as havens...