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Word: thrilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most enthusiasts are now experiencing the thrill of returning to the great outdoors. The inefficiency of Cambridge snow removal delays this exodus to the wholesome fresh air, but the hardiest are only too happy to jump puddles and plow through occasional piles of snow. The sidewalks beside the river fill, and the anticipation is unbearable...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Marathon Runners Train For Boston Spring Races | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...thought out carefully in advance, as a gymnast plans a movement in a high-wire act. Bruno has become a monster and knows it. He lives for sips of champagne permitted him each evening and the exhilaration of using the telephone to call wrong numbers and know the thrill of human explanations and regrets. Murkily he perceives that death is a physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hanging by a Thread | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). North American Figure Skating Championships from Oakland, Calif., team up with the World Figure "8" Stock Car Thrill Race from Islip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...matter-none of my friends are good enough for you?" Concludes Legman: "In the relationship with the other man that is crucial to adultery, it is the triumph over him, rather than the sexual conquest of his wife, that is understood to be the adulterer's real thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex: The Humor of Hostility | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio is no longer in getting 50 stations in a night, for radio has now conquered distance and turns to music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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