Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passenger-ship terminal. The tower did not lack enthusiastic backers. Construction workers saw it in terms of new jobs. To longshoremen and San Francisco Port Commission President Cyril Magnin, it would help to revitalize the now declining port. Mayor Joseph Alioto favored the building because it would also swell municipal tax rolls. Yet last week the city's board of supervisors voted the tower down, and Mayor Alioto is unlikely to use his veto...
...That's a swell question...
...budget deficit will reach some $20 billion in both fiscal 1971 and 1972. That would be galling for a Republican President. Nixon has budgeted a drop in the deficit from $18.6 billion in fiscal 1971 to $11.6 billion in fiscal 1972, assuming that a rapid rise in G.N.P. will swell federal revenues proportionately...
Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves...
...Argentine tourists who own or rent houses in the beach resort, warning them to stay away this year. But the wave of terrorism failed to materialize, the government cut rates on everything from ferry fares across the River Plate to hotel prices, and the flow of tourists began to swell after a slow start. Even so, authorities estimate that only 200,000 tourists will visit this summer instead of the normal...