Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first saw the movie at a Chicago cinema eleven weeks ago, falling into the arms of Theater Manager Larry Watts. The couple were married last week. Still under the spell of The Exorcist, the bride wore the same suit she had collapsed in. Director William Friedkin, perhaps hoping to swell the movie's gross of over $19 million so far, made an appearance as best...
Hydroelectric plants generate 40% of India's electricity, but they are running slowly now. Last winter's rain was low, and snow fell only lightly in the Himalayas, where the great rivers of north India swell. The flow in those rivers is now down to a trickle. Nor can coal-fired generators take up the slack. Plagued with their own problems, including limited fuel supplies, they are not working at full capacity. At present sky-high prices, India also cannot afford to import as much oil as it needs to operate the supplementary plants that power individual factories...
...affected in precisely the same way, but all that use the mails are hurting. Says National Review Publisher William Rusher: "Journals of opinion traditionally lose money. The National Review is a journal of opinion, so the postal rates won't eat into our profits-they will simply swell our deficits. It's a very serious problem...
...gesturing with his half-pint of Imperial, harangues the assemblage in a woozily dis gusted lecture on black pride, or the lack of it. Infected by his rhythms, the card players and their women begin, raggedly at first, then with a soulful swell, to sing Amazing Grace, coloring the hymn with a chaotic ardor and subtlety that would surely alarm any white missionary. It is not conventional hallelujah; like much of this odd, ritualistic musical, the moment has a certain magnificent energy that leaves one feeling lonely when it is over...
...will continue a posture of modest restraint." The slowdown is cutting into personal incomes and profits and thus into the tax take. Revenues will be lower than if the economy were closer to full employment, and the budget is dropping deeper into the red. The deficit is expected to swell from $4.7 billion this fiscal year to $9.4 billion next year. Many economists outside the Government predict larger deficits, as high as $20 billion. For all of Richard Nixon's conservative fiscal views, his budgets have never ended in surplus...