Word: itchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plants of foreign-designed cars have blossomed from Egypt to Formosa. Japan's 14 auto producers, who design their own autos, plan to double production this year. South Africa's plants put together no fewer than 95 different models. But Latin American countries, which have caught the itch, simply cannot afford the grandiose auto industries that they have lately created. While the U.S. has five major auto producers, Latin America has close to 50-mostly from the U.S., Europe and Japan-and far fewer buyers...
...itch to travel, along with the urge to find all the comforts of home, is bringing on the biggest spree of hotel building the world has ever seen. Along the most traveled international tourist and business routes the local scenery these days almost always includes the glass-and-steel presence of an American-type and American-run luxury hotel. The popping of champagne corks in celebration of another gala opening almost drowns out the noise of cranes putting up another hotel on the choice site next door...
...impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision in an older work by another author, with which some were certain not to agree (see RELIGION...
Baby Doll. Films like How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch made her vague but sparkling smile and her shrill, excited voice the universal definition of Baby Doll. And she learned to speak in the voice of the girl she was supposed to be with memorable success...
...days of the middle 19th century, when there were no wars and the most burning issues were the price of corn and the rise of trade unions, Melbourne was able to make a career of wit and irony. He shocked his fellow politicians by his love of paradox, his itch to ridicule everything, including himself. "The stomach is the seat of health, strength, thought and life," he said, alluding to his fondness for food and drink. "If you have a bad habit, the best way to get out of it is to take your fill...