Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
...Ranks Swell...
...people began to swell the ranks of the marchers as soon as the procession reached the four-lane stretch of U.S. 30, a few hundred yards from the campsite, and delegations from near and far flowed...
...criticized along with the Times-Picayune for doing little to calm the city during the 1960 school integration crisis, sent a staff reporter to cover last summer's murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and urged "reasonable Mississippians to raise their voices in a ground swell of indignation." Recently, the States-Item hired a Negro sports columnist. The Houston Chronicle, which has shifted from anti to pro integration, recently editorialized against a proposed state constitutional amendment to preserve discriminatory housing: "We need no laws aimed at Negroes, for that is what this is. We need no Mississippi...
This golden tide owes its swell chiefly to Switzerland's reputation for neutrality, conservatism and sound currency. (Today, the Swiss franc is backed more than 100% by gold.) The Swiss have sheltered foreign possessions as well as people through the Thirty Years' War, the Huguenot persecutions, the 1848 revolutions, and the last three major wars in Europe...