Word: swellingly
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...Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this looks like a swell course...
...third of the way through her first run, Andy was not quite so sure the course was swell. A ski tip caught one of the flag-decked course markers. She spun around, tumbled on her side. Then, to the cheers of the crowd, she bounced up, took five quick climbing steps to make sure she was through the "gate," and set off hell-for-leather for the finish. The spill had cost her at least three precious seconds, but when the first heat results were compiled, Andy was in fourth place. Dave, his brows puckered with worry, left Andy alone...
...openings" and "positions." Babies to be cared for are always "darlings." Lost dogs are inevitably "the pet of an invalid grandmother" or belong to a "heartbroken little girl." Dogs for sale are recommended variously in classified newspaper ads as "love that money can't buy," "darlings," "cuddlies," and "swell pets." Most refined touch: a bitch with a litter of pups listed as a "matron...
...recognized the value of this arduous work, but when a shrewd Scotsman from whose throat he had neatly extracted a herring bone gave him a stock-market tip, he was dazzled by the chance to get rich quick. Planking down his hard-earned savings of ?100, he saw them swell miraculously to ?1,000 in a few days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with...
Then he rolled up his sleeves, produced a bag full of vegetables, and a small piece of meat. "Wait 'til you see this cheap cut of meat swell up to twice the size after it's been cooked. You know, we can use smaller and poorer cuts of meat in our pans--and they'll serve more people. And we don't use water...