Word: thrilled
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That was a U.S. swimming milestone. But the chief thrill at last week's meet was a duel between two youngsters vying for the title of America's greatest freestyle sprinter-Yale's 19-year-old Alan Ford, who recently broke the world's 100-yd. free-style record, and Ohio State's 18-year-old Bill Smith Jr. At meet's end the question of who was greatest was not conclusively answered. Smith beat Ford easily in the 220; Ford beat Smith easily in the 100, neither in world-record time. But there...
...years he was assigned to the 906th C.A. (AA) and remained with this organization until '41 when he was appointed Harbor Chaplain by Brig. General Robert C. Garrett, then commanding officer of the Harbor Defenses of Portland. It was during this tour of duty that Chaplain Veazie had a thrill few Army Chaplain are fortunate enough to experience, that of building a Chapel for the men of his organization at Fort Williams...
...many a Hausfrau, wrinkling into middle age, this saga of the popular author of slick, sleek magazine pap was a thrill beyond her daily hopes. They quickly bought up almost every Ursula Parrott book on the drugstore shelves. But what produced a bitter-sweet romantic sighing in Ursula's readers fetched another emotion in the breast of the FBI. Ursula was charged not just with love's old sweet song gone boogie-woogie but with aiding the desertion of an army prisoner...
...thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe. President Harding was enroute there when he died in San Francisco. Winston Churchill fished for marlin off the island in 1929. Aboard his yacht, Errol Flynn allegedly was host to 15-year-old Peggy Satterlee, sailing from Catalina to San Pedro...
Morals. The case for war games was perhaps best made, pacifistically, by H. G. Wells in his Little Wars: "How much better is this amiable miniature than the Real Thing! Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of victory or disaster ... and no smashed or sanguinary bodies, no shattered buildings, no devastated countrysides Here is War down to rational proportions. . . . You have only to play at Little War three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great...