Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, a G.O.P. ground swell to oust Gabrielson was growing. Many Republicans felt that if the Democrats were to be attacked for corruption, the attacking had better be done by men who did not have to split hairs to clear their own records...
...dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...
East Germany's blood-Red Free German Youth Movement (FDJ) snared "peace doves" (as the Communists called the festival delegates) from Communist roosts all over the world. To swell the big flocks from East Germany, the other satellites and Russia, hundreds of Chinese and North Korean peace doves, some sporting Korean campaign medals, fluttered in via Moscow. The Reds also promised to deliver 100,000 from West Germany, but West Zone police turned back thousands of West German youths (although Red Zone policemen sent up smoke signals to guide delegates through gaps in West Zone border patrols...
...that was a swell piece, wasn't it?" Nugent remarked to the weedy stranger beside him. "I wonder who wrote it." Thurber swallowed. "I did," he said in a dim voice. Nugent stared at Thurber, then introduced himself. The two became best and lifelong friends...
...anxious finger-wagging) was not otherwise apparent in the President's behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...