Word: thrilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instant hate. This means that Jock Semple has a lot of hating to do because last year about 30 Harvard students decided the famous Marathon was at least worth a laugh, and probably quite a few more will send in entry blanks for this year's event. But the thrill of running in the Marathon is worth the price of incurring Jock's wrath...
...here was a right turn. I could tell that I had run 100 yards and then turn left for the final 100. So I poured it on and my calf got all better. No one was around me so I coudn't make any attempts to pass to thrill the bigger crowd. Nor could I be passed...
Having started in the rear, I got many chances to pass people and found it quite a thrill in front of the audience, especially after all my training alone. I'd seen someone a bit ahead and notice myself speeding up until I went by him. It became a game. People along the route, some of them, seemed to be playing their own little game: fool the runners. They were a minority and meant well I think, but gave incorrect information on the distance we have covered. Somewhere out there I was sure I had done 15 miles and asked...
...Chester, W. Va., touts dismissed it as beginner's luck at a small-stakes track. Then she went to Aqueduct and, with pigtails flying, ran away from the field aboard an untried 13-1 shot named Bravy Galaxy. Quashing the cynics was gratifying, she says, but her biggest thrill was having the jockeys ambush her and douse her with a bucket of water, a traditional ceremony after an apprentice rider's first win at the Big A. "To me," said Barbara Jo, who during a jockey boycott at Tropical Park had her dressing-room window smashed...
...heat is being generated by this new, serious, non-patriotic musical about the writing of the Declara- tion of Independence. There are those who love it--and those whose hearts do not quite thrill to the goings-on (which include an animated discussion of Thomas Jefferson's sex life). Still, the cast does include such people as William Daniels and Paul Hecht, and the general style of the piece is supposed to be quite out of the ordinary. At the 46th STREET THEATRE, W. 46th...