Word: swelled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that’s a swell idea! Let’s pour thousands of man-hours into a pointless, second-long display that will be the high point of our college lives...
...women too, are on their ingratiating best behavior in the blossoming of an affair. This isn't all salesmanship, closing the deal; it's that lovers swell with the sweet anticipation that this time will be different - perfect. And they will be different. They are, for a while: better than their best. It's at the bitter end of the affair that men, and women, tend to be at their worst, getting pathetic, shrill, vindictive. Especially if one of the pair feels wronged and righteous. No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings...
...which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped Mount Tomah, the first peak Caley reached, eucalypt-green ridges roll away like swell on an uneasy sea. The leaves of huge gums shimmer in the wind. It looks just as impenetrable as Caley might have seen it, and just as forbidding. "It looks epic down there," someone mutters...
...funding issue may be an insurmountable obstacle for the President's Social Security ambitions. In the long run, personal savings accounts pay for themselves and then some, because in exchange taxpayers receive reduced traditional benefits. In the short term, though, an already huge federal budget deficit would continue to swell, potentially driving up interest rates and slowing the economy. Even if all parties agreed on the promise of an "ownership society," it remains unclear how we would get there. --With reporting by Eric Roston/ Washington and Jyoti Thottam/New York
...upperclassmen. This makes the Prefect Program all the more valuable, but its current budget—around $1 per student—is insufficient for the program to function optimally. Therefore, we welcome the University Hall’s announcement that the program’s budget will swell five-fold this year, and we hope that this raise portends both continued strong funding of the Prefect Program and an increased commitment to using upperclassmen as advisors to first-years...