Word: swelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...force a century ago, be put under the general supervision of a committee of top Cabinet members or the National Security Council. Realizing that the Secret Service is overworked, undermanned, and paid less than the FBI, the Warren Commission endorses a plan to boost the agency's budget and swell its force by more than...
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...
Nevertheless, as the story unfolds the beauty becomes a bit boring, the sense of déjà vu insists, the characters swell into symbols, the symbols dissolve into words and the words fall on the ear with a soft, fruity thud. "I have waited so long." "I have searched so long." "One cannot choose in life...
...That would be swell," said...
Which when they melt run south to swell...