Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when the match depends...
...excuses him. If he has a clear but bad reason (e.g., avarice, jealousy), the law may take his life. If he has no clear reason for his act, the prosecution as well as the killer is in trouble. This was illustrated last week in the case of the Brooklyn thrill killers...
Fred and Martha Schwartzwalder were unimpressed. "The thrill isn't in the money," explained Fred. "For me the thrill is in finding that mineral after 25 years of looking. Now I'd like to go off and hunt some more." Adds Martha: "We've been poor people all our lives, and we're too old to change our ways now. After all, we got there second. God was there before us, and we feel He led us to the mine...
...departments on major decisions so that each might know the others' problems and help in their solution. He also had the ads changed to plug the theme that Buick was an auto for the young, with such headlines as DRESSED FOR A PARTY-POWERED FOR A THRILL...
...year-old Venezuelan from an old Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...