Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Gould said "it was quite a thrill to sit next to Mantle at the game," he admitted that "my real childhood dream would have been to sit with DiMaggio...
...Eliot was teaching him, and he thought how this intimacy--Eliot carefully maneuvering the razor around his chin, washing off extra shaving cream, patting his face dry; this thrill of smooth, wet skin, shining--this belonged to men who were lovers alone. It seemed to him a kind of celebration...
...stand, a commentary on the baseball business that even the Mets players might contemplate. Before the series, when casually asked about the Game 3 home run he hit eleven years ago off Cincinnati, Evans looked up in astonishment. "Nobody remembers that," he insisted. "That was the greatest thrill of my career. I'm the only one who remembers that." Now he has hit two more that will scarcely be recalled...
...theatre existed on the verge of bankruptcyfor most of its lifetime. Actors and poets often"sewed their own costumes while learning theirlines," said Sayre. "But they saw a thrill inpresiding over abject poverty...
...into the tissue around the eye, it paralyzed the spasming muscles for as long as three or four months, thereby preventing them from squeezing the lids shut. Mattie Lou Koster, 74, of Beaumont, Texas, had her last injection of Oculinum in May. "It was a miracle," she exclaims, "the thrill of being able to open my eyes. Now I see through slits, when I can see." Other patients who used Oculinum, including some suffering from crossed eyes (strabismus) or muscle spasms of the face, neck and vocal cords, are clamoring for the drug. Says Neurologist Joseph Jankovic of the Baylor...