Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...
Impulsively he let five of them go, then three, and early this week five more. He fed and housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...
...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
There will be some rise in scholarship money next year, Elder said, but added, "we have no intention of trying to buy people." The Graduate School will not swell its ranks by accepting less-qualified people, he said...
Freed promptly quit his $25,000-a-year job with Manhattan's radio station WINS because it "failed to stand behind my policies and principles," and returned to his Stamford, Conn, home to contemplate his grievances. Snapped Freed: "Those kids in Boston were the greatest -swell, wonderful kids. But the police were terrible...