Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to want to be a door holder for a living. In third grade we had to sign up for weekly tasks, and mine was always the door holder. First I would hold the door open for all my shrieking eight-year-old classmates and then I would run as quickly as I could to get to the front of the line...and I would repeat the process all the way to the lunch room. It wasn't the most glamorous of jobs, but I liked...
...fourth grade we didn't have weekly tasks anymore. I could no longer serve as door holder, so I found a similar calling--as elevator operator. I got the idea on a visit to a London hotel over the summer. I don't know what constituted its tremendous appeal--the brass buttons, double breasted suit, or just the image of spending all day riding the elevator and getting to talk to many different kinds of people...
...women's 800, and possibly the 1,500, where she'll face defending champion Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria. Boulmerka's countryman and fellow 1,500 runner, Noureddine Morceli, may be the firmest favorite in any track event, with the possible exception of Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, world-record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000, or Kenya's Moses Kiptanui, who owns the six fastest marks in the steeplechase. The heat and humidity will open up the marathons, although Spain's world champion Martin Fiz is good in hot weather, and Uta Pippig of Germany proved her ability...
Actually, Johnson did try some half-hearted showmanship last June, waving during the last few strides of his 400 victory in the U.S. nationals. Some say it cost him the world record (43.29); the actual world-record holder, Butch Reynolds, finished an angry second because he thought Johnson was trying to show him up. Damned if you do, damned...
After all, the squad was pretty different from the team that narrowly lost to Princeton at the Eastern Championships last year. Gone was Deborah Kory, holder of two Harvard records and fifth-place finisher at the 1995 Easterns. Also lost were freestylers Greta Steffenson, Valerie Gilson and Kristan Gately, all of whom placed at Easterns...