Word: itching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AQUICK-STRIKE FORCE would be no help to future presidents faced with crisis like the embassy takeover, except to give them one more option that could endanger hostage' lives. But it would be very convenient for future Secretaries of State who might itch to tip the balance in some civil war in Africa or Asia. Proponents of the force say that today our government understands the dangers of intervening in complex local conflicts, and would only use a quick-strike force to defend our "legitimate interests...
...itch to know what's going to happen next seems ingrained in modern man, and can be valuable, at least to those Wall Street insiders who buy on the rumor and sell on the fact. But journalism's constant anticipation of the news can be like a runner dashing for third without having touched second base. Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked...
...unsafe," he writes. "Pointless, profitless muggings were commonplace; joyless rape that punished its victims and offered no relief to the perpetrator. Everything was contagious, cancer as common as a cold, plague the quotidian. There was stomachache, headache, toothache, earache. There was angina and indigestion and painful third-degree burning itch. Nerves like a hideous body hair grew long enough to trip over and lay raw and exposed as live wires or shoelaces that had come undone...
...often overlook the continual development of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its stockpiling of conventional weaponry, including ammunition, as well as the stockpiling of food grains. If one has so many things in one's hands, the day will come when one's fingers begin to itch. You can't eat those materials or wear them. You must use them somehow. We've already been through two world wars, and both started from small incidents. Such things often develop independent of one's will, perhaps even independent of the will of the present Soviet leaders...
Buyers have the itch; dealers get some scratch