Word: itchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Planta's sales curves soared, Dutch doctors began getting patients troubled by a strange and painful itch. The symptoms, which doctors guessed were the result of a poison rather than a virus, were invariably the same: eczema-like pimples that appeared first on the feet but often spread across the body, temperatures ranging up to 106°. Only after treating thousands of cases did the doctors finally discover the one thing the victims seemed to have in common: all had tasted the new Planta...
...week's end Unilever, too, was beginning to itch. With cases of rash and fever already totaling 50,000, and two deaths attributed to the malady by the Netherlands' National Health Service, an incensed Utrecht lawyer announced his intention of suing Unilever if Planta could be medically proved responsible for his wife's illness...
...aged American who is fighting, says Alfred Kazin, "not for freedom from convention, as George Apley did, but for conventions-standards of belief and behavior-that will allow him to function as a human being in a world where beliefs are shared.1' He is troubled by the materialist itch of American life, whether he is Charley Gray, the nice poor boy who wants to be a nice rich man but still plays by the rules, or Willis Wayde, who has torn up the rules and claws his way to uneasy success-the only Marquand hero the author seems...
...mixed up with romantic fantasies about "heroes! archangels! princes! sages! even fascinating rascals!"--fantasies analogous to those which, by his own testimony, occupied much of Shaw's attention during his virginal youth. The view which permeates Getting Married, however, is that sex is an undignified sort of anatomical itch, which nobody of any character would get married in order to scratch. This doctrine does not strengthen the claim of those who hold it on the interest--not to say the credulity--of an audience...
Exuberant Vulgarity. On his own, Billy wrote, produced and directed a savage social satire (Ace in the Hole) that flopped hard, then came back handily with Stalag 17, Sabrina, Seven Year Itch, Love in the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution. All these films were made from scripts that Billy himself had written-though always in collaboration. "Most of Billy's collaborators," says a friend, "are just $50,000 secretaries." They sit at a typewriter while Billy strides feverishly up and down, slashing the air with a swagger stick, frothing at the mouth with dialogue and situation...