Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This concreteness was also the distinguishing characteristic of The American High School Today. In that first book, Conant issued no calls to revolution such as might thrill the hearts of Paul Goodman fans. Perhaps he did not fully realize the long-range theoretical implications of his own suggestions. Yet by presenting a number of specific, carefully thought-out, feasible recommendations for American high schools, he became the leading exponent of the post-Sputnik revolution of academic excellence in American education...
Most of Malamondo is so patently contrived and tasteless that even thrill seekers will find it boring. Its net effect is to make an audience stop wondering about today's youth and start wondering about the grown men who make such movies. Perhaps this entry will be the last. If not, the pig died in vain...
some more squeamish Cliffies field the hall, their dates in tow. But most stayed and sought, with Ginsberg, "the thrill delicious," which might sometimes be merely "playing with myself unbeknownst to the entire population of Far Rockaway...
...Real Thrill. Nobody demonstrated U.S. superiority better than Oregon's Don Schollander, who has been training for the Olympics five hours a day every day for eight of his 18 years. "The greatest sensation in swimming," he says, "is the pain you have to swim through. But the real thrill is winning-and winning big." Last week Don was looking for all the thrills he could find. In the 100-meter freestyle he left France's World Record Holder Alain Gottvallès far behind to set a 53.4-sec. Olympic record. "I had nothing left...
...Tide, and Tide has captured 17% of the lucrative heavy detergent market. P. & G.'s Crest ($16 million for advertising) accounts for almost 33% of all toothpaste sales, Gleem for another 17%. Ivory Liquid ($8,500,000) has cleaned up 18% of all liquid detergent sales, Joy and Thrill another 12% and 8% respectively. Duncan Mines cake mix has 27% of the ready-mix cake market. Introduced only last fall, Head & Shoulders already accounts for 23% of all shampoo sales, thanks to the $12 million in advertising P. & G. shelled out to promote...