Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these errors had helped to swell the casualty list-for survivors of the Indianapolis weltered in the sea for three days before it even occurred to anyone that the ship might be in trouble...
Even up to the last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the multifold difficulties of reconversion...
...York's Senator Robert Wagner accused the British Government of conducting an "insidious, worldwide" campaign against the Jews. Manhattan's professionally crusading tabloid PM gave the matter 22 columns in five days. Other boldface papers and emotional radio voices helped to swell the wolfpack...
French sculptor Apelles Fenosa set out to tell, with one human figure, the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. He molded a statue of a woman knee-deep in fire; her throat seemed to swell with a scream; her arms were lifted. Fenosa's Oradour will shortly be placed in a square in Limoges-the town near Oradour's seared site...
Deadline in June. In all this noise, the most important facts in the demobilization program were drowned out. Since V-E day nearly four million servicemen have been brought back from overseas. December arrivals will swell the total by another million. After World War I, it took the nation a year and a half to bring back almost 2,000,000 troops from Europe. This time they are being brought back from all over the world...