Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover was far from unreserved praise, "I only got the airline-hostess model." King Hussein of Jordan once took Mecklin flying in his plane, with an unexpected thrill at the end when the young King was barely able to get a stuck nosewheel down...
Hume gave Communism a whirl, masqueraded as an R.A.F. officer ("It was a great thrill to have everyone saluting a bastard like me"), got married. Then he met Setty. "He had a voice like broken bottles and pockets stuffed with cash." When he heard reports that Setty was hanging around his wife, Hume suddenly felt a twinge of jealousy, grabbed a dagger and-"continued next week...
...turn, made their desires possible to fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather and immodesty, when a house is only a shelter, when the thrill is gone out of buying and pride fades out of ownership, we are headed for something worse than a mere depression. We are headed for a whole new kind of economy that none of us are going to enjoy...
...Advice. Brower did offer some advice. "What you and I have to do, patiently and day by day, is to teach that work can be fun, that the only real reward that life offers is the thrill of achievement. A hole in one isn't half as thrilling as landing a big order-a piece of furniture built in your basement workshop will never be as thrilling as a sales plan that works. You and I cannot take care of the whole nation, perhaps, but we can do such a job in our own small corners that others...
High point of the year, of course, was Joel Landau, whose four wins against Yale provided a thrill not soon to be forgotten by Harvard track aficionados...