Word: itch
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...American life gets fuller, the lure of gambling will diminish. People will find such challenge in their jobs, their families, their sports and their travels (so goes the argument) that it will not be necessary to resort to the artificial excitement of gambling, and that strange and beguiling itch will disappear...
...Egyptian troops and their armor into Sinai and elbowed out the U.N. buffer force that had separated the antagonists for a decade. With a hostile Arab population of 110,000,000 menacing their own of 2,700,000, the Israelis could be forgiven for feeling a fearful itch in the trigger finger. When Nasser closed the Gulf of Aqaba, a fight became almost inevitable...
...want a seat! Then boldly sate your itch...
When Paul Taylor quit Syracuse University and hotfooted it to Manhattan 14 years ago, he was not sure of anything except that he had this terrible itch to dance. Faced with an audition before Martha Graham, he was uncertain as to whether he should leave his shoes on or go barefoot. So he compromised and danced in his socks. But once he got his feet off the ground, he quickly became the barefoot boy with cheek, choreographing numbers in which dancers simply walked across the stage like pedestrians, stood rigidly still for minutes on end, or cavorted and slithered...
...knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame-they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem about the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews by German troops near Yevtushenko's Kiev, topics of recent years are often triumphs of trivia, his attitudes the aggravations of an adolescent...