Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrill of companionship with eager men and women whose joy it is to create beauty by breathing life and significance into music which, without the exercise and skill of their attention, would remain cold symbols on the printed page; to have a part with them in the accomplishment of high artistic ends arrived at only after enthusiastic cooperation and painstaking labor; to see them grow in sensitiveness to the refinements of performance and in the appreciation of what is true and enduring in art--I cannot believe many professions have greater rewards...
...crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill...
...which the British team goes out to greet the returning climbers and to hear the fate of its expedition will go down in anecdote as a classic underplay in the British tradition. When Lowe, the first of the three to come down, gives the sign for thumbs up, a thrill shoots through the audience; and when the camera picks up Hillary and Tenzing, their faces shining like those of men who have been in paradise, it is a hard heart that will not beat faster, and a hard face that will not break into answering smiles...
...nearly a year, four small boys, aged 7 to 10, led the police of Rosenberg, Texas (pop. 6,210) a merry chase. The boys stole keys from a used-car lot just for the thrill, broke innumerable light bulbs, tried to set a local dance hall on fire, scooped money off newsstands, broke into at least five stores. All in all, they were arrested a total of 21 times, but on each occasion, they were able to laugh right in the police chief's face. As the boys knew only too well, they were too young for prosecution under...
...Hope Root loved the sea. A vigorous, barrel-chested (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) Miami lawyer, Root spent his spare time in or on the water, fishing, boating and swimming. Three years ago he discovered the new sport of skin diving with an Aqua-Lung. He discovered the thrill of plunging into the dark depths without the clumsy encumbrance of a diving suit, using only a mouthpiece breathing apparatus to equalize the tremendous pressures of the ocean's silent world. Unlike Captain Cousteau, who brought the silent world on to the printed page in a 1953 bestseller (TIME...