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Word: swelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...openings" and "positions." Babies to be cared for are always "darlings." Lost dogs are inevitably "the pet of an invalid grandmother" or belong to a "heartbroken little girl." Dogs for sale are recommended variously in classified newspaper ads as "love that money can't buy," "darlings," "cuddlies," and "swell pets." Most refined touch: a bitch with a litter of pups listed as a "matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You'll Simply Drool | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Then he rolled up his sleeves, produced a bag full of vegetables, and a small piece of meat. "Wait 'til you see this cheap cut of meat swell up to twice the size after it's been cooked. You know, we can use smaller and poorer cuts of meat in our pans--and they'll serve more people. And we don't use water...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

...them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Picture | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Dwelley said the club will co-ordinate its activities with other student Taft groups in Greater Boston. He denied any official tie-up between the clubs and Taft's campaign headquarters, but admitted the movement might be termed "a ground-swell starting from above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Taft Group Gets Few Supporters | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...Swell of Protest. Many Protestant leaders across the land reacted with immediate cries of protest. The sharpest words fired at Baptist Harry Truman came from Dr. J. M. Dawson, executive secretary of the Baptist Public Affairs Committee. "It is perhaps a frantic bid for holding machine-ridden big cities in the approaching hot Presidential race," he said. "It is a deplorable resort to expediency,, which utterly disregards our historical constitutional American system of separation of church and state." Truman's pastor, the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden, said in a sermon (which the President did not hear) that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undiplomatic Appointment | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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