Word: itch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anne is a vivid presence here, a child whose reckless brio offended some of the town's proper Jews. But we also get a fine image of the doting Otto, who underestimated Hitler's genocidal itch. He was not the only Jew to do so. A family friend, Hanneli Goslar, recalls that as late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from...
...states and pleasures quite independently of any reference to the world as we know it, had a long ancestry in theory. Plato, after all, raised the idea that there were certain perfect forms--the square, the circle and so on--that move us in a way free from the itch of desire...
...done." In other words, though he had fought his way into becoming one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, he felt the need to prove himself all over again (with the kind help of an estimated $150 million parting package from Murdoch). This is the sort of itch you acquire when, even as your net worth is accreting into the low nine figures, pal David Geffen's is pushing a billion...
...overcame my DIMS. And immediately contracted an acute case of DAS--Doom addiction syndrome. In the space of a week, I was late for two meetings, canceled three lunches and spoke curtly to friends and family. Worse, my trigger finger has begun to itch when, in real life, I round the corner to the coffee machine. The demons, I fear, are everywhere. I plan to worry about that later, after I escape from Level...
...youth she was an aristocommunist who wore jeans one day and couture the next as she passed out leaflets on street corners and talked the night away in political cafes. All that changed when she was 28 and inherited the family firm. The itch to design and expand into women's clothing began almost at once. She met her husband when she stopped by his leather-goods display at a trade show and pointed out what was wrong with his merchandise. They now have two mischievous little sons ages...