Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously so rasp and thrill; no one ever made standoffishness more come-hitherable...
TIME'S Oct. 9 cover story on Robert Frost is a masterpiece. The article on the great poet is itself blank verse. The quoted poems, and everything in the feature, give a thrill and warm the heart...
Since Mrs. Stone is never very real or substantial, no one can care much about her fate; it is doubtful whether even Author Williams cares much. He is much more credible when writing about those beautiful young men. One of his liveliest scenes shows Paolo getting himself a thrill from the ministrations of his barber. "The sensuality of that hour," Williams notes enthusiastically, "was exquisite as the jam of the gods...
Besides drug addicts, there are the usual thrill-seekers who take goof balls instead of marijuana, quite often ending up as confirmed addicts of the opium (hop, brown stuff) derivatives, such as morphine (M), heroin (H, horse, white stuff), or the coca-leaf extract, cocaine (C, Charlie, snow), which combined with heroin is injected as a "speed-ball...
...first, he got a thrill out of Japan...