Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy's parents were frantic. They saw the child's face and fingers swell, saw him grow fretful and throw his toys on the floor. They have given all of their own blood that they can. Meanwhile papers all over the U.S. took up the cause. Result: hundreds of donors volunteered to give blood. Cartons of plasma arrived from Boston and Washington; 300 WACs at Chanute Field, Ill. arranged to give a pint of blood apiece. At week's end the Baylor Hospital's blood bank was again in the black; the interminable transfusions began again...
...raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated, told the soldier across the aisle: 'Even the dump piles look swell.' The other soldier nodded: 'You ain't kiddin...
About 40% of those who go to sea are thus afflicted. Even some admirals get seasick. To these unfortunates, last fortnight's announcement that the Canadian Navy has an antiseasickness capsule that works 75% of the time brought a ground swell...
Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
Guadalcanal Diary (20th Century-Fox) is a resourceful adaptation of Correspondent Richard Tregaskis' best-selling war book, and a straightforward, exciting picture. The Marines are first shown singing, loafing, ribbing each other aboard ship, responding quietly to the ground swell of their anticipation and their ignorance, taking very lightly (in a fine, honest scene) the reading-aloud of the rather pompous order which first tells them where they are going. These shipboard scenes and those in which the Marines land, find no enemy, and only slowly begin to learn about Jap snipers, are among the most real...