Word: itchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emotionally estranged from Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
Credited for at least part of the influx is Expo 67, a well-publicized reason for visiting the New World. Beyond that, the growing affluence of people in industralized nations has been accompanied by an itch to see where most of the money comes from...
...inertial-guidance systems, and within six years built the company's electronics-equipment division from scratch into an $80 million-a-year operation. Says Singleton today: "When I went to Litton, I needed money and experience. I got both there." By 1960, he also had an itch to start his own business. He teamed up with Litton Colleague George Kozmetsky (now dean of the University of Texas Business School) to found Teledyne...
...American life gets fuller, the lure of gambling will diminish. People will find such challenge in their jobs, their families, their sports and their travels (so goes the argument) that it will not be necessary to resort to the artificial excitement of gambling, and that strange and beguiling itch will disappear...
...Egyptian troops and their armor into Sinai and elbowed out the U.N. buffer force that had separated the antagonists for a decade. With a hostile Arab population of 110,000,000 menacing their own of 2,700,000, the Israelis could be forgiven for feeling a fearful itch in the trigger finger. When Nasser closed the Gulf of Aqaba, a fight became almost inevitable...