Word: adrenaline
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...know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people. I'm a very gregarious type of person and there's a certain sense of pleasure I get being in touch with people. My adrenalin pumps when I meet a crowd...
...process. In 1930, when the program made full use of individual conferences and special tutoring, a university committee found that student composition was at a high point. And when Robert J. Kiely introduced middle-group courses in the late '60s, Expos again received a badly needed shot of adrenalin...
...game will be telecast regionally over ABC network affiliates, and the added excitement of playing on television should be an emotional factor for Cornell and Harvard. With so much riding on the game, and the television audience of the Northeast looking on, there should be no trouble raising the adrenalin count for the players...
Walker always began in a low, urgent voice, saying how we had worked hard for this game and how we deserved it and how it would all go to waste if we let it slip away. His volume would accelerate as he talked; fists would clench, adrenalin flowed fast. The sixty would become one, like an awesome animal flanking Walker in the center. At the climax came the question in a scream, "Are you ready?", and the animal's energy roar in response. This roar was what the fans waited for, the cue to rise and cheer for the victory...
...Youthful adrenalin-and perhaps the sloppy drizzle in South Bend, Ind., or the mile-high altitude in Boulder, Colo.-might "account for some of the unexpected scores on the college circuit. But what of the pros, those supposedly steady, seasoned old veterans? In the National Hockey League, for instance, the venerable Montreal Canadiens are battling for the Eastern Division lead with the likes of the Detroit Red Wings (who have not won the Stanley Cup in 18 years) and a gang of young upstarts called the Buffalo Sabres. The Boston Bruins? Last year's Stanley Cup winners, weakened...