Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barnaby called the award. "the greatest thrill since I met my wife." Two victories this weekend would add a ninth national title in ten years to his achievements...
...thrill to the new pattern these people are shaping, the life-style they are by example inviting others to share at no little cost to themselves. And I note the liveliness of spirit and the joy that sustain them in their trouble...
...Iceberg Slim, a former pimp interviewed at great length by the Milners, successful pimping requires an outright loathing for women. "That's where the thrill was," he said. "In the absolute vilification, in the degradation. I had this intense hatred. To be a great pimp, I think you've really got to hate your mother." Bruce, a pimp who went to college, thought that society had twisted and perverted the Biblical role of the sexes: "Pimping goes back to the man controlling the situation before Eve bit the apple, see, and brought him down to her level...
...been a wicked ol' man," confesses Thorpe. "But one thing I've never done is rob anyone of money." Money, he says, was never his aim. "It was the sheer thrill of moving in and out of the trees and bushes, the excitement of never knowin' what might happen next to you. You get a lovely eastern sky at dawn and the geese comin' in toward you−it's a picture some people never see in their entire lives. If I had my time over again, I wouldn't do any different." Then...
...When she last lived in Washington, under the socially dull Eisenhower Administration, her husband was an economic adviser. "This time we're meeting heads of state, we're talking to people who make history," she wonderingly exclaims. "Each time I go to the White House it's a special thrill ?and we go there often now. You make that turn into the grounds you sweep up to the portico, and I think, 'It's mine! It's ours!' Washington is so exciting. It's almost too much of a good thing...