Word: itch
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...rainless Australian summer, no one can escape the vague menace that lies in the coal strike. The men spend their strike pay in the saloons, their families do without, the merchants grumble. Only two men really enjoy the strike: George Morgan, a young miner spurred by idealism and an itch for leadership, and Owner Quint, who also owns just about everything else in Gerindery that pays a profit, including the paper that Mike Lambert runs...
...rushed in to put it out. Bandleader Miller has been dead since 1944, when a plane carrying him to Paris-he was an Air Force major touring military posts with his band-went down in the English Channel. But millions of feet his music once made itchy will surely itch again at the mention of his name, and carry their owners off to see this picture...
What the City really wants to take from him is his inmost self, his individual reality. The struggle is conducted in quasi-metaphysical colloquies through Dr. Bab-itch, "an impersonal emanation of a depersonalized office which in turn stems from another office, and so on, in concentric circles, up to the very ectoplasm, the super-Babitch." What Pierre means by "being no one." i.e., belonging to the City, is what Babitch means by "being." He tries to make Pierre accept the proposition, "I crawl, therefore I am." Against all pressure, Pierre resists, for he knows that to agree...
...Packer was a good mining engineer with a speculator's itch. He had an unshakable belief in America, in progress, and in his own good luck. Like most people in Arizona of the '80s, he dreamed of striking it rich. His son Tommy heard him say that he would "rather not live at all than live a failure." But he never really expected to fail, and his dream came real when a crusty old prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer...
...outbreak of the Korean war, Dowling was back reporting in Chicago, and, says he, "I began to get itchy feet." Dowling's itch coincided with a TIME decision to open a Southeast Asia bureau, and he was hired for that assignment. Setting up a news bureau out there, says Dowling, "was just a matter of finding a place to hang your hat. I picked Singapore principally because the cable facilities were good." As it turned out, Singapore was literally not much more than a place to hang the Dowling hat. "I averaged only about two weeks out of every...