Word: itchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Says No. Congressional Leaders in Washington are understandably worried by this ten-year reapportionment itch. For one thing, some old stalwarts always disappear. One victim of the "Rockymandering" that New York Democrats charge Governor Nelson Rockefeller is planning to cover a two-seat loss will be Manhattan Democrat Alfred Santangelo, a hard-working and valuable agriculture expert, though he comes from East Harlem. And a handful of such changes can shade an entire Congress. Republicans, who will probably benefit as the outs in an off-year election, might well gain control of the House if the returns really run wild...
...hawk-eyed watch on federal legislation, and swoops in to fight bills that run counter to A.M.A. principles. The headquarters' permanent staff inevitably wields great power. No one-year president, such as Larson, can dislodge it. A front runner for next year's presidency, who showed an itch to get the reins in his own hands, was shunted aside last week...
Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...
Since 1921, when Louisiana-born John Lee Denson broke into journalism at 16 on the Washington Herald, he has shown an itch to stay on the move. Along the years, Denson has drifted through assorted editorial posts on five magazines, a press wire service, a radio network and five newspapers in Chicago, Washington and New York...
...country and the people." The prince is kingpin of the rich southern Laotian valleys, famed for leading a heroic resistance against the Japanese in 1945 and admired by local tribesmen both for his reputed magic powers (he wears a lukelod, or amulet, that is said to make his chest itch when danger approaches) and his gargantuan drinking and partying...