Word: thrillingly
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...Judy: "I get too scared to just stand there?guess I'd better sing." On to more oldies like Swanee. A standing ovation for Old Man River. She sits down, her legs dangling over the edge of the stage for The Man That Got Away. "No more that oldtime thrill," she trills with her terrible intensity, "for I've been through the mill. . ." Many in the audience weep. Some grope down the center aisle to the stage. She leans over and kisses a proffered hand...
...dogs are the least important aspect of a night at the track. Greyhound racing is a participation sport, not a spectator sport, and the participation involves risking a valued belonging. Betting puts an edge on life, brings a vividness costlier than a roller-coaster ride. But why is its thrill worth the money thrown away for it? Less than 28 per cent of the $500,000 bet each night is winning money. But the fans keep coming back, and even though the percentages are against them, they go right on betting...
...collections, though skirts are floor length for evening, they fall somewhere above the knee for daytime, and are almost always to be worn with over-the-knee boots in soft glove leather or stretch vinyl. Come winter, those boots will offer women a promise even more welcome than the thrill of feeling like a buccaneer: an end to polar kneecap...
...Your Essay on "The Golden Age of Sport" [June 2] is an excellent analysis of sport in the 1960s. The magic eye of the TV camera has had its impact in no uncertain fashion, and I hope it will be there to foot the bill and thrill the world for many years to come...
...teachers at Anaheim permit classroom use of four-letter words in order to strip them of their forbidden-thrill value. But most of the time, the language in the more advanced sex-education classes is straightforward and clinical, with the result that parents are sometimes staggered by breakfast-table mentions of seminal emissions or clitoral excitation. However startling, such language is a vast improvement over the flights of icky imagery about the "mystery of growth" and the "joyous miracle of motherhood" that can still be heard from time to time...