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Word: thrilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call it a thrill, or call it crazy. Just don't call bungee jumping illegal -- that is, if the right kind of platform is involved. For years determined aerialists risked arrest by hurling themselves off bridges. Then a few discovered cranes, which are perfectly legal but hard to find. Now in Colorado bungee jumping is readily accessible. Leapers of faith can visit Clear Creek County, where officials have approved a 140-ft.-high bungee-jumping tower on public land 30 miles west of Denver. A county over, in Fort Lupton, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected this week to certify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bungee Jumping Comes of Age | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...their creating overtly political or ideological work in which the content is intended to be the work's major value, and then quickly proclaiming the "freedom" of art from ideological standards as soon as their intended funders reject the work's ideology. Like immature adolescents, they want the thrill of offending the establishment without any curtailment of the benefits of that establishment's patronage...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Duping the NEA | 4/9/1991 | See Source »

...lost 15-3, but it was a real thrill," he said. "I thought to myself, 'I'm here. I'm playing Division I hockey.' I felt like this...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Back On Track: Senior Trying to Skate Again | 3/9/1991 | See Source »

...that there's anything wrong with buffalo. When I saw my first one, it was a big thrill. The thing about a buffalo is that it's big and brown and hairy and dusty and kind of scary when it's coming your way. If you've seen "Dances With Wolves," you'll get the idea. In Wyoming, there are even more buffalo than in "Dances With Wolves." And that's a lot of buffalo...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Buffalo Galore | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

After a dramatic overtime victory over Penn Friday night at Briggs Cage, the Harvard women's basketball team provided its fans with another thrill when it rebounded from a slow start to edge Princeton, 58-55, Saturday night...

Author: By Ellen Hamilton, | Title: W. Cagers Edge Princeton | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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