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...Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...National Association of Real Estate Boards reported on its survey of 208 of its farm-market specialists. They found that the fear of inflation dominates 40% of all farm purchases. Other sales are routine: 56% to farmers, 38% to investors, 6% to city folk who have had a lifelong itch for cows, chickens and the smell of manure. Such purchases have boosted prices 15% since 1940; the trend is still up. There is a newer reason for buying farms now: people want to eat, and one good old-fashioned way is to grow food...
Their salesmanship is based upon the "you ain't doing me no favor" approach which makes the buyer itch for their bits of paper. The boys claim they are valuable...
Said Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov: "When I think of Germans I can't control myself. I shake, my hands itch. I've got to shoot, or throw a grenade, or use a bayonet...
...along all right without much fresh food. They can stand the heat, the glare of the sun, the scarcity of beer and Coca-Cola. Unlike fighting men on islands in the western Pacific, they never see a woman-of any color. But what really annoys them is the itch for something, anything to happen. "I wouldn't mind sitting here under this gun, looking up at the sky day after day, if something would just come along sometimes," said an anti-aircraftsman after six months on an island. "If I could just glance around...