Word: itched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Itch of Lines. Socrates once held that "straight lines and curves and the shapes made from them . . . are not beautiful for any particular reason or purpose, as other things are, but are always by their very nature beautiful, and give pleasure of their own quite free from the itch of desire; and colors of this kind are beautiful, too, and give a similar pleasure." If a Greek philosopher's esthetics of 2,300 years ago could still be considered revolutionary, this year's trend in art was well to the left...
...noble statesmen do not itch...
Labor had sometimes suspected that one of these days Britain's peers might again itch to extend their legislative hand and block Laborite bills passed by the House of Commons. Last week it almost happened. The Lords were considering the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act when Lord Merthyr, a former artillery major, boldly suggested an amendment that would substantially change the bill. Said he: "I submit that the functions of your lordships' House should be allowed to continue as they were intended to continue ... [or] is this House really merely an assembly for dotting...
They felt a compulsion to go on from where the post-impressionists (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne) left off, and an itch to show that you can forget nature (almost) and still paint pictures...
...gave up bobsledding six years ago. Then big, high-strung Bill Linney got the itch again and vowed he would become U.S. bobsled champion. An engineer by trade, he went about it with an engineer's eye for detail...