Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Motionless, and nowhere should he swell...
...exempt items involving about 12% of the Market's imports, France balked. Having neutralized the Germans by its farm concession, France now demanded that another 130 items be tacked on to the industrial list, and Italy joined in with a demand for another 68. The additions could swell the Common Market lists of exemptions to more than 20% of the Market's imports -meaning further trouble for the Kennedy Round...
Although the book reads as fluidly as most popularizations, it is primarily a piece of thorough, balanced scholarship. In writing it Professor Labaree compiled material from thousands of original sources--public records, company ledgers, state documents, newspapers, broadsides, private letters and diaries. Such abundant documentation could easily swell into pedantry: here, however, it serves to reconstruct the subtlety and complexity of issues as contemporaries saw them, a fascinating exercise in painstaking historicism...
...with a series of threats following hard on the Sputnik successes in space. He was forced to back down. The Cuba confrontation of October 1962 was an even more paralyzing setback. And within the Communist camp, the Premier's handling of relations with China had allowed a dispute to swell into uncomradely hostility. He had planned to stage a climactic meeting of the world's Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their feet so that the meeting threatened to be a fiasco. Another terrible defeat was the disintegration of Soviet power...
Paradoxically, Fiddler's conscientious good taste may have robbed it of the richer seasoning of the Sholem Aleichem tales it comes from. Fiddler does not swell with Aleichem's yeasty joy, pain and mystery of living. Zero does...