Word: swelled
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Thereason for low milk production, Neifert found, is usually anatomical. Some women simply lack sufficient glandular tissue (as opposed to fatty tissue) in their breasts. A history of breast surgery -- biopsies, breast reduction -- increases the risk. (A warning sign of the problem: the breasts do not swell significantly during early pregnancy.) How does one tell if a breast-fed baby is getting enough to eat? The proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers...
...proving more efficient than carbines. It kills in hours, draining the body of fluid so fast that nurses without equipment for transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...
Defense Secretary William Perry said the 750 U.S. troops aiding Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Uganda will swell to at least 4,000 within a week. And that number could further grow if the Pentagon sets up a "way station" system to draw fearful Hutu refugees back to Rwanda, where rival Tutsi now hold power. Meanwhile, a team of U.S. soldiers will assess the conditions in Rwanda's capital to determine if food, water and other supplies could be delivered faster using facilities inside the country -- though Perry said he hadn't yet decided on sending in a large force...
Richard Winters of Hershey, Pennsylvania, a first lieutenant in the 101st Airborne, came back to the outskirts of Ste.-Mere-Eglise and could identify every building, every wall, every swell of land where he had landed. Jesse Franklin of Concord, New Hampshire, a military policeman sent to Omaha Beach to direct traffic, recalled that there was no traffic to direct. He hugged the sand on the orders of Colonel George Taylor, commanding the 16th regimental combat team of the First Division. Looking up, Franklin saw the colonel caked with sand and mud to his shoulders, bawling the now famous charge...
...Boss, you can't do that anymore.' " Former Oklahoma Congressman Wes Watkins, who retired four years ago, says a friend once offered him a useful epigram about Washington: "There are some that go to the Capitol and grow, and some that go there and swell." He adds, "Some get power hungry and arrogant, and that leads to corruption." Which kind Rostenkowski will turn out to be is now up to a court to decide...