Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enduring, myth upon which McCarthy fed. Eisenhower's victory could not explode it. It was the myth of McCarthy's prowess. No man-especially no Senator (other than an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart")-dared stand against him. This myth, propagated mainly by anti-McCarthy "liberals," helped swell McCarthy's headlines, and, since head lines are a form of power, a gross exaggeration of power begot actual power...
...spectacular advance of the American Economy from 1949 to 1953 has created a swell of optimism with respect to the possibilities of future growth and expansion. A Gross National Product of $500 billion, six to eight years hence, has frequently been suggested. Recently President Eisenhower himself referred to some such target...
...feels that the "new jazz" is too avant-garde for the average cat. The jazz ground swell of the '30s found joints and after-hours sessions in every U.S. city and many a crossroads town. Everybody who cared could get hip and come on without a doctor's degree and a libretto. It wasn't cool, man, but it sure was solid-a real ball...
Playwright Macken acts Paddo with a good deal of skill. But instead of exploring Paddo with a scalpel, he merely keeps coming down on him like a sledge on an anvil, while his victims' endless denunciations swell matters into an anvil chorus...
...muggy night last week, two detectives walked out of their precinct station across from Louis Sobel Park in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...