Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sirica said it was a "great thrill" to be out of Washington, because "they blame me" for many of the Watergate-related crises...
Once a semilicit pastime for thrill-seeking high school kids, drag racing has become big business since 1951, when Wally Parks, a former racing driver, founded the N.H.R.A. and held its first meet on an abandoned airstrip in Madera, Calif. Last year the organization sanctioned 2,930 races at 150 tracks, drawing more than 4,000,000 paying spectators...
Little wonder why swarms or even dribbles of excited fans don't flock to the park to take in the action. In addition there is the brevity of a cross-country meet. It lasts only 15 thrill-packed minutes, without boring time outs or commercial breaks...
...Urbana, Ill., got so tired of Watergate and what he considered disrespect toward the President by the news media that he rented three billboards that read: "I have more faith in this man . . . than I have in any of his accusers . . . especially the press." Dobbs was rewarded with the thrill of his life...
There are no pretentious general conclusions to be drawn. There is no tenable reason to try to grasp what every instant meant in terms of the one that preceded or followed. These are just images, moments that are frozen to be recalled, to bring back the sensual thrill of the there and then. They are fragments of a timespan to which goodbye is, finally, being said...