Word: itching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like other types of mental patients, alcoholics are generally self-centered and defiant. During drinking bouts especially, they develop expansive egos and large ideas, are given to a well-recognized disease known as "telephonitis," i.e., an irresistible itch to make long-distance phone calls, particularly to their psychiatrists (one well-heeled alcoholic of Tiebout's acquaintance runs up phone bills of $400 a month...
...thought he ought to be able to name his own cabinet, with the exception of the auditor and treasurer. "There is no more reason for the people to elect an attorney general or a secretary of state than there is for them to get the itch." He took a dim view of doing departmental business by commission, board or bureau. "After 14 years of Washington's experience with government by bureaus," said Republican Sigler, "we know it didn't work. Every time you set up a bureau, you get the business of government further away from the people...
When despair and bouncing checks begin to plague the card-fancier, he often takes deluded refuge in a poker game called "barber's itch." Here two people split the pot, and the rest split blue chips into red chips and red chips into bits of grimy paper...
...furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price. One reason for low prices: in the auctioneer's showroom, the furnishings looked...
...long been held that mass killing is the work of states, not of peoples. War, some say, is caused by professional militarism, the existence of large arsenals and the itch of governments to exercise their most spectacular function. Similarly, the killing of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe was the work of a state, mad with its organized power. Are you suggesting that the Indian killing sprang out of the people themselves, out of the evil which you call Kali...