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...when he awoke the next morning, the thrill was gone. The next five days, between Friday morning and the final decision Tuesday to pull the plug, were an emotional roller coaster. Powell arrived home Saturday afternoon to find his house staked out. Everyone knew a decision was coming. He spoke with a few friends by telephone that afternoon, and running was still a possibility. He even picked the announcement day--Nov. 22, the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination and the eve of Thanksgiving, America's family...
Never mind the weather or the sullen opponents or the fatigue. The players on the Radcliffe rugby team, savoring a 17-0 trouncing of arch-rival Boston College, weren't letting go of this thrill...
...that the Mayor of New York City prostituted himself to the Jewish community in his ejection of Palestinian Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat from a social gathering of world leaders at Lincoln Center last Monday. The intimation is that he sold his office for a quick hit, a cheap thrill and great pay. Of course, who can blame him? The Jews control all the votes, and all the money, and the national media, so it obviously made a great deal of sense to pander to them...
...knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June 21 as a plenary session in the city's Opera House received a motion to sign the charter: "Nobody spoke. Somebody said, 'Let's vote.' So we did. The chairmen began to stand, and we suddenly realized that everybody was standing, and we broke into applause...
TIME WAS WHEN A LITTLE BOY WHO wanted to see a dirty word in print made a surreptitious trip to the dictionary and got his thrill. Now, with the publication of The F-Word (Random House paperback; 232 pages; $12.95), any curious boy or, for that matter, girl can get a bonanza of thrills and at the same time become the most foulmouthed and maybe most envied kid on the block...