Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Governor Edmund G. Brown said California had acted, because the "mind-expanding" drug "poses a growing threat to society -- particularly to young thrill seekers unaware of the damage...
Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw is an anomaly among operas. The plots of most are so banal or insignificant that opera lovers are notoriously satisfied with the often glorious music and the thrill of elegant productions; the plot becomes merely a vehicle for the rest of the work. But Britten has taken the Henry James novelette and written beautiful music which emphasizes its essential enigmatic horror. The score is absolutely perfect for the story: eerie, elusive, with a constant undertone of brooding malevolence...
...hard-boiled area of steel mills and oil refineries with an abrasive ethnic mix, northern Lake County has not only been invaded by thrill seekers from shuttered Chicago; the crime syndicate, known locally as "the Outfit," has also found a cozy haven there. So cozy, in fact, says a local minister, that today Gary, with a population of only 178,000, has "every problem, vice and crime known...
...case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared in a Manchester suburb, found "a bundle wrapped in a blanket" with a human foot sticking out of it. The bundle contained the body of Edward Evans...
Even the protests had a somewhat cheerful ring. Some 600 Beatle-maned students tried to crash the palace gates, were held back by police with rubber truncheons (one boy was hospitalized). Several harmless smoke bombs exploded along the parade route, providing good shots for the photographers and a thrill for the millions glued to their TV sets in The Netherlands and West Germany, but no danger to the princess or to the 80,000 loyal Dutchmen who turned out, despite a drizzle, to cry "Oranje Boven" (Up with the Orange). Beatrix and the new Prince Claus of The Netherlands took...