Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom is to live long in this world, and if the Radcliffe girl is to continue to experience each spring the thrill of the Sabine women, flat flame must not be allowed...
...cockfighters are apt to defend their sport on the ground that they are "improving the breed." Their shoptalk is spiced with argument on the merits of reds, doms, warhorses, and other leading breeds. But the lure of the main time & again is not that academic; it is the vicarious thrill in a bloody contest that gives and asks no quarter...
...thrill packed game that wasn't decided until the closing minutes, the Yardling lacrosse team edged a strong Exeter squad, 12 to 11, on the prep school's field Saturday. Dave Rogers scored the winning goal on a pass from Monk Aiello...
...really a thrill. They play to win and they don't horse around unless they get about ten points ahead. The Minneapolis Lakers were the only ones to beat them this year until we did in Buffalo. But when they do horse around they make you feel like an ass. You don't like it when you're out there, but when you're not in the game you have to admit they're comical. They get a lot of publicity. Bill Veeck owns a part interest and the papers really play up anything he says. He claims the Globetrotters...
...signs, the people axe fed up with the Socialists, and by all signs, the Socialists are fed up with governing. Only tenacity and pride keep them in office. Their revolution is over and so is the thrill of adventure that went with it. In February the Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization...