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Another interesting facet of the Dartmouth team is that its members grow in size as the game wears on. Their faces contort with an incredibly grim determination, and their bodies swell to the point where they are impassible on defense, and unstoppable on offense...
...making events happen and those who allow the environment to act upon them?" It's these complexities she says she intends to submerge herself in just to "see what happens." Maybe, she acknowledges, nothing will happen. "It all depends on what I come across and just how swell it is," Scarf says, leaning back into her chair...
...lift rates on a "temporary" basis shortly after Christmas. The Postal Service noted that it is currently losing $2.6 billion a year, and even after the next increase it will lose "hundreds of millions of dollars" this fiscal year, which began July 1. Altogether, the new rate hikes will swell revenues by $2.4 billion a year...
...that just swell? After all the helpful suggestions on how to make my Chinese hair, Chinese eyes, Chinese nose, Chinese mouth and round face look more Western, I am now told that the Chinese Look is current chic. Oh, those inscrutable Westerners...
Effective too is Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...