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Word: thrill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaguers--William Brandon (Tom Tremoulet) and Charles Granillo (Adam Selipsky)--have murdered a fellow undergrad, who just happens to be their professor's son, and stuffed the body in a trunk. Brandon and Granillo have no real motives for the crime. They do it for the sheer thrill of murder, coupled with their own arrogance and plenty of neo-Nietszchean philosphizing...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Knot Nice | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...Southeast Asia. In Kampuchea, he was helicoptered into a town only to discover that a North Vietnamese siege he thought had been lifted was still going on. Under heavy fire, Cloud was trapped for two and a half days. Says Cloud: "I must admit that there's a certain thrill in being in dangerous situations -- and surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Nov. 9, 1987 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Despite all his heroics in New England high school and in intercollegiate play, Young claims that his greatest hockey thrill came in a pee-wee tournament, when he was 12 years...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, | Title: On a Young Team, Sophomore C.J. is a Veteran Threat | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...result, the Crimson is once again embroiled in the thrill of a league race, a thrill it last experienced two years...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders, Brown to Clash in Halloween Bash | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...Agnes' heart ("A love so true sings out to me . . .") along with the rest of the papers he inherited from the dad he'll never learn to forgive. Your shy Aunt Myrna enduring the Bake-Off at the state fair, with all those people watching and Joey Chitwood's Thrill Show roaring around her. She managed to talk the judge out of giving her chocolate cake the prize it deserved ("I don't know . . . This isn't very good at all. It's gummy"), but still rose to her moment: "Oh, I'm glad it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just A Few Minutes of Bliss LEAVING HOME | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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