Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never tried any sport get a strike the first time she ever bowled. That's pure luck. But, for that one ball, she is playing as well as the best bowler in the world. You can't get more than a strike. It's a big thrill, and it's a thing that doesn't happen in most other sports -where the beginner can't do anything right for a long time." Adds" Jack Vaughan, manager of Albuquerque's Bowl-a-Drome: "Where else can a woman compete after she gets married? They...
...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...uninitiated it is quite a thrill to hear sounds coming from points between the two speakers, from where, it seems, nothing should be coming. This is the stereo centre illusion...
...There is no thrill in journalism like getting a scoop, and this was the biggest scoop of our times. Professionally speaking, no one can ever take that away from...
...Veteran New York Timesman Herbert Lionel Matthews, 61, the big thrill came one February night four years ago in Cuba's Oriente province. Led there by intermediaries. Matthews sat for three 'hours with a bearded and gabby young guerrilla leader named Fidel Castro, puffing Havana cigars and discussing, in whispers, Castro's plans to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The rendezvous with Castro did indeed produce an impressive scoop. Until Matthews' three-part series appeared in the Times, much of the world had been led to believe Castro dead, his rebel movement aborted. In Matthews...