Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to bed it is necessary to lay by one's side, ready for instant use, an obscured torch, thick clothing, heavy boots and oilskins.... After the first thrill of excitement wears off, fire-watching on the roof for four hours in the early hours of a mid-winter morning is cold work. What did I say! (one word censored) we are precipitated from sleep by the repeated wails of the sirens. The heart beats a little faster and one feels tired and fed up, stumbling into ones clothes in the dark, cursing the fact that tomorrow's work will...
While the President muffed the chance to make use of the immense public interest and potential public thrill of his meeting with Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister not only made capital of it, but told the U.S. people some things they wanted to know about the President's plans and purposes-things which their own President neither had the urge nor the willingness to tell them...
...then a Y.M.C.A. secretary, formed a chorus of 60 poor Chinese, taught them to sing Save, Save, Save China to the tune of another round, Row, Row, Row Your Boat. The Y.M.C.A. sent Mr. Liu throughout China, and finally the Government adopted his program. "My greatest thrill," says he, "was leading 10,000 soldiers in mass patriotic singing...
...wouldn't be much thrill...
...Golden Bough was abridged to one inexpensive volume. Gilbert Murray, famed classical scholar at Oxford, "with a thrill of alarm" hailed it as "a dangerous book." Said he: "Frazer tends to destroy [Christianity] by merely showing how old it is. ... The most mystical Christian doctrines . . . appear as commonplaces of savage superstition, sometimes revolting, sometimes in their way sublime. ..." Others were less upset. Wrote John Peale Bishop of The Golden Bough: "By extending [Christianity's] existence into the dark backward and abyss of time, it has gained not only the respectability of age, but another authenticity...