Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrill was almost not enough for the home-town boy. Henderson wanted to play football instead. The All-City running back at Oakland Tech gained 1,100 yds. in his senior year (after batting .716 the previous spring), but turned down a dozen gridiron scholarships because his strong-willed mother, Bobbie, thought that he would have a longer career in baseball. Says Henderson: "My mother's only advice about trying for the record was 'Stay healthy.' " Success has not gone to his head...
...privileged haunt of the most powerful 'criminal milieu' in the south of France." So writes Graham Greene, the British novelist, who has lived at Antibes, only a few miles from Nice, for the past 17 years. But the French will not be able to thrill to Greene's charges in his new nonfiction book entitled J'Accuse: Portrait of a Delinquent in His Protected Milieu. The appellate court of Aix-en-Provence ruled early this month in a rare decision that the book could not be sold in France or even brought into the country because...
...bottom of the market collapsed in November; the middle is experiencing some softening. If you don't like horses, don't come in." For those who love the smell of the liniment and the roar of the parimutuel, however, there is no investment that can match the thrill. Consider the dreary alternative: no one ever got to kiss a Krugerrand in the winner's circle...
...urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because they have any chance of being nominated or elected. God forbid. It is just nice to hear the name boom in the hall, to have the transient thrill, something to tell the grandchildren. The mere proposal of a constitutional amendment amounts to national billboarding for an idea, and perhaps even a way of drawing the poison out of certain issues by bringing them briefly into the hypothetical presence of the sacred text...
...until its last film, Black Hole, Disney resisted this temptation. To bell with declining morals, here was a family company that would produce stuff for general admission. The thrill came from good old fashioned...