Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airport, ambulances and fire engines were waiting. Police, firemen, physicians stood by. Thrill-seekers by the thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
...around her neck. She was also wearing four diamond bracelets on her right wrist, four more on her left, a handful of solitaire rings, and she carried a diamond-chained handbag and a diamond-studded cigaret case. She had just been to Russia, she said, to give Moscow a thrill...
...them and often that night I could almost feel the guillotine at my throat. They hated me, yet they were fascinated. I stood for all that women who wear jewels represent. Frankly I think I am the only person in ten years who has given poor dismal Russia a thrill. I taught them a lesson. Hereafter when a girl visits Russia she can wear her jewels. There can be no surprise after...
Here we are, under a night of blessing . . . Here we are, sharing each thrill So tender, silently you surrender, But is it love...
...Putting aside dolls at an early age, she shortly began dissecting snakes, toads and moles, producing grotesque breeds of chickens. She explored stream bottoms by going under with rocks roped to her waist, a long glass tube to breathe through. Graduated from Connecticut College for Women, she conducted a thrill-hungry matron through the wilds of British Guiana, returned to Manhattan for an M. A. in zoology at Columbia. After showing the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel that she was steady-fingered enough to stick pins in the edge of a piece of paper, she worked two years...