Word: itches
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...take the itch out of mosquito bites, Dr. William Albert Hoffman of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine recommends dabbing the bites with a piece of cotton moistened with a few drops of chloroform. It is supposed to work best if done while the bites are new. Precaution: keep chloroform away from eyes and mouth-it burns...
Like a poker lying in a bed of coals, one of the biggest issues in U.S. defense last week slowly reached cherry-red heat. Congress, press and public all obviously had an itch to take a hand in settling the question of whether the U.S. air forces should be taken from the Army and Navy, and set up as an independent air command...
...pecan trees, swamps, ravines and the chocolate-colored Trinity River that meanders stray-catlike over the course. Its tough Bermuda grass was an annoying novelty to many. And two days of rain had brought out chiggers-the pesky little red bugs that burrow into human flesh and start an itch worse than a mosquito bite...
...fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...
...never seen an art exhibition before. Six hundred and fifty-three museums and schools, 5,000 stores, 782 art organizations, hundreds of individuals contributed money for exhibition space and running expenses. WPA furnished labor. Famous painters and sculptors hung works that might have graced any museum. Nobodies with an itch for the smell of turpentine displayed everything from incompetent daubs to genuine "primitives." For sheer quantity of canvas and paint, nothing like Art Week had ever been seen even in the peak days of the Italian Renaissance...