Word: itch
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...Jimmy Byrnes's home town, for $750,000. But this time, said Davis, there was no mystery about his business. In his plush suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Tower, he reassured anxious friends that he was still a salesman, had not suddenly started to scratch a journalistic itch. He had simply found an able young newspaperman to go partners with and do the editing (fellow Clevelander William Townes, 35, a Nieman fellow and former assistant city editor of the Cleveland Press...
During the depression Davis made two profitable discoveries: 1) that good newspapermen are usually bad businessmen, and 2) that good businessmen who don't know the first thing about newspapering often itch to run a paper. Mixing this knowledge with a gift of the gab, he has since juggled millions of dollars worth of newspaper investments in Miami, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis and points between and beyond...
...dolorimeter is also used on people who already have a pain. It can measure pain anywhere in the body-Marat's itch, Prometheus' pecked liver and Job's ulcers would have been equally fair game. The machine is applied to the patient's leg and the squeeze increased beyond the threshold, up & up until the agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive...
...suggest that the U.S. Army's new DDT delousing powder be applied liberally to relieve the "censorship itch" afflicting the person who deleted DDT's "real name...
Obsessed with an itch for riches, Mary Martin (then Mary Violette) left her native Goshen, Indiana when she was about 30, sold diamonds for a while, then heard about something better-northern Ontario's gold fields. In 1906 she got a job in a Haileybury, Ont. law office and for a month made out 60 to 65 prospec tors' affidavits daily at $2.50 each...