Word: swelled
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...would be a system that allowed persons who consent to donate their organs upon death to bequeath their compensation. Currently only 35 percent of licensed drivers and ID card holders register to be organ donors. One would expect many more Americans to register if it meant that this would swell the inheritance they leave behind by several thousand dollars...
...happier impression of the past 40 years. But the skies have clouded in the past year, and this time around, the attacks make one wonder how those who find Michelle Obama's gritty realism out of bounds would mount a campaign in this climate. By suggesting everything is swell? By gliding silently over the battered economic landscape at home in order to talk instead only about terrorism abroad? That is certainly not where most Americans live either...
...join a club that would accept him as a member, he probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert...
...Sitting along the side of Quincy House two years later, Hill started singing a verse from “Something’s Coming” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and reenacted his audition. As his voice began to swell, Hill suddenly stopped short of the refrain and motioned silently as if trying to grasp the words. “I completely forgot the words to the song,” he recalls. “It was pretty embarrassing. But more than embarrassing, it was a lesson that...
...It’s going to be extremely ridiculous, fun and goofy, and a great way for people to end their semester,” Li says. With Harvard’s yearly outpouring of seniors set to graduate and swell the ranks of investment bankers, this musical will surely strike a chord...