Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest reports on the Ohio are the first hopeful Trident news in years. In June, Captain Alton Thompson took the big black sub out to sea for the first time. The Navy described the three days of trials as "super swell." Electric Boat has promised to deliver the Ohio to the Navy by Halloween. A brand-new $706.5 million Trident base is waiting in Bangor, Wash., and the Lockheed-built Trident missiles-each tipped with up to ten warheads-have been ready for two years...
...week it announced a vague list of "twelve tasks," including a commitment to flexible wage and price controls, a mixed economy and nuclear defense. The S.D.P. leaders hope to capitalize on their early momentum and have budgeted $385,000 for a major media blitz. Their immediate aim is to swell the party's rolls-and coffers-by selling $20 annual memberships. Even before the launch, some 20,000 people contributed to the cause and another 10,000 signed up last Thursday...
Because he traveled much and lived in remote places, Hemingway sustained his friendships and antagonisms through the mails. They enabled him to exchange the latest dope and "gen" (military jargon for intelligence). He also used the epistolary form to procrastinate: "Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something." It is estimated that he wrote about 6,000 letters. Carlos Baker vetted 2,500 pieces of correspondence for his biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969). As editor, he has selected nearly 600 moveable treats, from World War I until two weeks before...
...with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
Retirement at such lifetime firms normally comes at the early age of 55, but does not automatically swell the ranks of the nation's unemployed. Not only do corporations give their retiring workers lump-sum retirement payments, but upwards of 75% of the workers are rehired immediately, at lower salaries, by smaller companies that in many cases have been supplying parts or subcontracting services to the larger firms all along. For those who do not find jobs, and for the unemployed elderly, the government and many private employers have launched extensive retraining programs to give the jobless workers...