Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they settled into barracks, the Gurkhas seemed to adapt quickly to the land so many had defended and so few had seen. Though members of a Hindu sect that sanctions polygamy, few brought even one wife. Their greatest thrill was watching TV, which they had never seen before. The Gurkhas in fact were possibly the only segment of Britain's TV audience that expressed no indignation at the parade of violence on their screens. Though it was plainly this side of heaven, they thought it exhilarating...
...thrill blasting down the straightaway at 180 m.p.h. What's really thrilling is taking a 70-m.p.h. corner at 75-coming through it at the absolute limit of tire adhesion, with the nose pointed perfectly down the straightaway and the throttle flat on the floor. Then you feel like an artist who has spent his life trying to paint the smile of Mona Lisa, finally gets it right with a single flick of his brush, and says to the rest of the world, "There, you bastards, match that!" There are not many who can even come close to Britain...
...then, after back on my one and only , that the experience of can get through to you pretty . It can force you in on your---as never before, and it can take away from yourself--for four sec---as never before. It isn't all , nor is it all thrill. Nor does adventure last for only the few of descent from exit to land...
...basic curiosity, motives . Some jump because they think the good life must have frequent with danger; others do it for reasons in times of . A few do it to prove to themselves--and, perhaps, to others--that they are men. And, of course, there those who just seek the thrill...
...been pockmarked by scandal, Wagner is an honest and hardworking mayor who, like many other mayors, sees his statewide dominance over his party as a gantry for a higher flight-in his case, to the governorship. Says Wagner: "It's an amazing city. I get a great thrill from being mayor here...