Word: itching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the notes in the Journal, Wolfe hoped that he might "succeed in recording a whole hemisphere of life and of America . . . My ringers are itching to write again." That itch was never worked off. Four days after the trip was over, Tom Wolfe had pneumonia. Ten weeks later he was dead of a brain infection...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...
Scratch-Happy. Because he reckoned that "cows know where they itch," Cattleman Bill Kirk designed a pest-killer which any range animal can apply to itself. "Old Scratch" is a flexible steel cable, strung with hundreds of steel washers, lubricated by a reservoir of oil-insecticide. The cow just rubs against Old Scratch, is automatically smeared with bug-killer, made happier, puts on weight faster as a result. Kirk, who started out with 11? in capital last year, has already shipped 4,500 models of Old Scratch to ranchers. Price: $198.50 f.o.b. Amarillo, Texas...
...University of Pennsylvania, loser of only three of its last 44 Ivy League football games, "is being shunned like the poison itch by other Ivy League colleges . . . Cornell is the only Ivy institution that has not omitted the Red and Blue powerhouse from its 1953 card." One reason for Penn's success: state legislators, with an eye for a good football team, make 675 scholarship nominations a year...
Last week in Chicago at the ninth annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology, Philadelphia Psychiatrist O. Spurgeon English offered suggestions on curing certain kinds of itch. Go behind the itch, he said in effect, to see what's wrong: when a teenager itches, treat the parents as well; when a husband itches, treat the wife. "A great deal of human security and peace of mind is derived through the skin," said Dr. English. "When this sense of well-being is not maintained, the deprivation can often be felt in the skin...