Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having worked on the ship, it was quite a thrill to see it in TIME and to read your wonderful account of the first flight, which was correct to the letter...
...Othello. At first he planned to do a fast rewrite of Shakespeare, but a friend asked: "Why paraphrase? Have you got a better line than 'I hate the Moor'?" In stead, Elliott contented himself with cutting Othello from 146 minutes to 46. Instead of the usual thrill music, he used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity. Cathy played Desdemona as smoothly and efficiently as she plays her comedy roles in My Friend Irma. The real star of the first show was Richard Widmark...
...same with many businessmen. The 39-year-old boss of a family-owned box factory in Cheshire knows that he could double his business. "That wouldn't thrill me," he says. "I consider myself normally British in that I don't want to get too big . . . We have always been able to sell all we wanted. Where you get people who have been working together for a long time, you just can't break them of their habits. There is a tempo that goes with the business and gets ingrained into...
Italy last week put into daily service between Milan, Rome and Naples the most modern train in Europe. Known as the ETR 300, it gives passengers the thrill of "riding with the engineer" at 60 m.p.h. in a radically different locomotive that is also an observation car. The passengers actually ride ahead of the engineer; he runs the electric train from a dome behind them...
...More than half the huge U.S. output of sleeping pills (395 tons in 1951) goes to drug addicts or thrill seekers, said Chicago's Dr. Donald A. Dukelow. These non-prescription sales, he said, cause at least 1,000 deaths a year, and are a factor in thousands of other deaths...