Word: itches
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...station had no news-gathering facilities, so Huntley satisfied his itch to broadcast news by buying a Seattle paper each evening and rewriting stories...
...tale of a nameless deranged narrator who sits in his room at an overpriced Swiss sanitarium and purports to write a novel about a demented dreamer named Timothy Fogel. The narrator's own story about his itch to transform his experience into art and the Fogel "novel" are offered in alternating chapters...
...real beginning of one of the great fairy tale quests in modern literature. Frodo is a Hobbit, three feet or so tall. The ring is magic and dangerous. It renders the good and weak who wear it invisible, but it provides both the power and the itch to dominate the world to any bad and overweening personage who may possess it. Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor, for instance, who has already sent his dread black Ring-wraiths coursing through Middle-earth to seize it. The only hope for peace lies with poor Frodo. He must journey to the very...
...main hall there were the usual representations of the Buddha, curling smoke from incense bars and deep-throated chanting of sutras by a monk with a drinking party later. But there was one variation in the ancient rite: a large still of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch in front of the altar. In that setting, Marilyn's delight might even suggest satori...
...evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician. The stakes were high for both men: the polar itch had become the obsession of their lives, but there were also publishing contracts and lucrative lecture tours...