Word: skier
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...still feeling great, but my heart sinks when I see that the results are posted. I distinctly remember being passed many, many times during the race by folks going at absolute warp speed relative to my feeble plowing. I also distinctly remember - not - passing one single other skier. One thing that would ruin all this good feeling would be a dead last finish with a five-minute gap between me and the dude who was second to last (a distinct possibility considering that the only external reaction I received from anyone during the race was involuntary laughter). It would...
...understand what little boys sometimes have to endure. I was puny, wore glasses and had a very strange surname in an Anglo-Saxon environment. Prime target! But my parents helped me develop self-respect. I became a competent tennis player and cross-country runner and a good skier. As for bullies, they should be encouraged to become more effective leaders. They generally have the needed qualities; it is just a question of direction. ROBERT SAVOSNICK Gordons Bay, South Africa...
...Circle. I contemplated various "dry land" training methods - Rollerblades and running drills and special excercises - but I realized these were for people who already knew what the hell they were doing. I was bad at it, let's be honest, and I wasn't going to become a better skier if all I did was go on 10k runs, or hop around on one leg through an obstacle course all summer (one of the dry-land drills I read about). The only answer was daily practice, and the shimmering hot streets of Manhattan were mocking me in a most unyielding...
...miss every shot at a shooting stop, taking 60 seconds to complete the five-shot cycle; they hit every shot, taking 12 seconds to complete the cycle. "What is so fun about this?" I think during a dark moment of the day, as I get lapped by another skier, taste blood in my mouth that is spraying up from my heaving, overtaxed lungs, and catch a ski tip on a tree, causing me to plow into the underbrush and knock my head on my gun barrel. "This is not fun... this is just dumb... stop... please." Finally, the casual clockings...
Raised in the U.S. and Canada, Greenwood, 44, was a professional skier before acting bit him. He did TV (St. Elsewhere), had meaty roles in Double Jeopardy and The Sweet Hereafter. But he lacked both the star power of Kevin Costner (who plays political adviser Ken O'Donnell) and the Kennedy bones of Steven Culp (who plays Jack's brother Bobby, as he did in an earlier TV movie). So when director Roger Donaldson chose him, Greenwood was as surprised as the rest of Hollywood. "I spent a week or so lying in bed thinking, 'Oh, God, this...