Word: swellingly
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This scenario illustrates a striking new development: Hungary has become the first nation in the Warsaw Pact to offer sanctuary to citizens of a Communist ally. Since January more than 4,500 Rumanians have received permission to settle in Hungary, and officials predict that the number will swell to at least 12,000 by year's end. Virtually all the newcomers belong to the large ethnic Hungarian minority (more than 1.7 million) that lives in the western Rumanian region of Transylvania. The immigrants complain that ethnic Hungarians are the victims of official discrimination. Hungarian authorities agree: in April, Budapest protested...
Faced with such opposition, Zinser resigned. Her decision, she said, was based on the "ground swell of concern for the civil rights of deaf persons." The board is now expected to pick a hearing-impaired president. The voice of the deaf was clearly heard -- and heeded...
...Zamboni: That's the machine that goes around the rink and makes the ice look swell. Charlie Brown said one of the best things in life was watching a Zamboni go around the ice. It sure beat falling flat on his back after trying to kick football. Or getting his clothes ripped off by a screeching line-drive...
...selling insider-trading stock tips (although he wished to impress upon me the fact that he was truly penitent). Nineteen of society's condemned eagerly offered to exchange positions with Hernandez and Parker. The lone dissenter, a short and lithe drug pusher from Minneapolis who is also a swell switch-hitting shortstop, declined to change places because neither the Mets nor the A's have an opening at his position...
After several weeks of traveling with only a handful of reporters, Hart saw his press pack swell instantly at the news. A dozen reporters and cameramen ambushed him as he campaigned in Laconia, N.H., on Thursday morning, lobbing new allegations to which Hart, assisted on the road by just a single aide, was unable to respond. "Obviously, a candidate cannot know every detail," he protested. Hart then called for reinforcements. His chief counsel, Bernard Schneider, flew from Denver and attempted to pre-empt further questions with a detailed explanation. He said that the bills paid by Karl were simply part...