Word: itches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leaving for a trip to Maine with my roommates the next morning, and was terrified that my hives would return to leave their telltale red tracks. When my alarm sounded at 7 a.m., I heard my roommates scurrying to get their things packed, and then I noticed the burning itch on my arms. My hives taunted me with their cruelly bad timing, and only seemed to feed on my fear of them. I got in the car and fiercely wished them away, becoming more and more frustrated by their resistance...
...sexual arena, self-fulfillment converted almost every sexual itch into a sexual need. Acts that had traditionally been viewed as perversions, like sadomasochism, were now proclaimed "alternative life-styles," presumably self-fulfilling for those attracted to them. Joseph Epstein, in his book Divorced in America, argued that for those on a lifelong mission of self-fulfillment, the very thing that led individuals into marriage?more growth?was bound to lead them right on out; the ties and obligations of wedded life blocked the proper unfolding of the self. But, points out Carlfred Broderick of the University of Southern California...
...consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand...
...Michael the night we met, and figuratively speaking, I didn't leave again for those 7 1?2 years. The breakup sucked, the more so because it was no one's fault. Our relationship had begun to suffer the inanition of many marriages at seven years. (The seven-year itch isn't a myth; the U.S. Census Bureau says the median duration of first marriages that end in divorce is 7.9 years.) Michael and I loved each other, but slowly--almost imperceptibly at first--we began to realize we were no longer in love. We were intimate but no longer...
...childhood sores of poverty long ago healed over for Huckabee, who spent more than a decade in the Arkansas Governor's mansion. But Huckabee continues to identify an itch in the Republican Party, and the nation as a whole, for a more frank appraisal of the working family's struggle. As the caucuses approach, he is scratching away as best...