Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Californians will never forget the thrill they experienced when Jockey Adams rode six winners in a row (five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer...
...American side of the story does not have the thrill and suspense of the impending murder; it is a development of character and a picture of New York life in the pre-Civil War era. But there are the same pictures, the same compelling narrative style, the same intuition and insight into the workings of a woman's mind. "All This and Heaven Too" is Rachel Field's outstanding book. Her old readers will read it anyway; those unacquainted with her will find it one of the best novels of the fall...
This run is a steep 1500 feet of icy snow. Heavy jumping-type skis are worn, weighted for stability and with handles for the crouching skier to grasp. Bermath laughingly denied that he was scared. According to him it was a great thrill, but nothing more...
They stage most of their hunts at night, racing hound against hound. From a fireside circle on a hilltop, owners get a vicarious thrill recognizing the voices of their beloved hounds echoing and reechoing, as they cry the fox in the dark distance...
...complexity of this day there was a challenge, in its very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...