Word: snowdrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the 7,000-ft. summit of the tallest of them, in North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko, 1863. It is not, as Bierstadt's mountains tended to be, a made-up scene, and those smooth palomino flanks of brown grass and summer snowdrift between the granite outcrops are strikingly true to life...
...marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended up in a snowdrift without his skis (but miraculously walked away like the tough bricklayer he was). In the same race, Jean Luc Cretier, a customs officer who had never won a major downhill, skied to gold...