Word: thrill
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s a thrill to have your school send you across the ocean,” said freshman Jonathan Lehe...
...need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company. "But it isn't the last grill they buy." Barbecuers are also enhancing the grill thrill with an array of accessories, some high-tech, like forks and tongs with built-in meat thermometers, and others low tech, like customized branding irons (presumably not to be used with that other indispensable barbecue accessory, beer...
...memory banks the ne plus ultra first-game experience, the Gone With the Wind of first games. Dad wanted us to see Ted Williams play before he retired. The day was fine and fair, the car ride to Boston joyous. Our first-ever trip on the T was a thrill, and then we hastened to the Fens (see what I mean, about the ode?). Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked up the tunnel into the brilliant sunshine we were blinded...
...from Westchester County are a little bit of esoterica in Lowell. The Spinners sell out all their tickets before Opening Day, but we guests from exotic lands, dignitaries from afar, get to sit a dozen rows up and square behind home. Caroline is rubbing her hands together with the thrill of it all. In the midst of a year that has seen too many hospital visits for and by various members of our family, I'm as happy as I've been since Christmas...
...ended up at Nobu with friends, and there was Ermakova, the colossal blunder he didn't make until his career's last day. He was still buzzing with the thrill of his final match, still wanting a piece of the action. Then he was in a closet; standing outside himself for the second time that day, he watched someone named Boris Becker drunkenly sire a daughter. "I had no idea what I was doing," he says. "It wasn't an affair. It was just poom-bah-boom...