Word: swellingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popularity of the Korean goods has helped swell the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $148.5 billion in 1985, according to new figures released last week by the Commerce Department. Last year's deficit with South Korea amounted to $4.8 billion...
...years following World War II, younganthropologists, psychologists and sociologistsfound their broad view of human behaviorconflicting with the political alliances andconservative outlooks of Harvard'swell-established academic departments. In 1946,they merged several disciplines of the socialsciences, launching the Department of SocialRelations...
...forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with 1,634,000, but will enjoy the highest per capita income in the U.S.: nearly...
...done a disservice not only to the general public and to those who wish to see the movie, but especially to people who are offended by its contents. Those who would suppress Hail Mary have distracted debate from the movie's substance and generated a notoriety which will only swell audiences...
Meanwhile, a band swung into all the old sad songs about mamma, lost loves and the perils of strong drink. The crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop...