Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-distance call to Washington late yesterday afternoon, Chet Patterson, National Chairman of the American Veterans Committee, told officials of the College chapter that March subsistence checks will be swollen with the pay increase approved Tuesday by the House...
Fearful that membership drives of more active organizations would deplete their swollen ranks, the SAL admitted it might lodge a mild pretest with College officials. "All this reform balderdash is getting rather trying," sighed President Bottle. "It's getting so a man can't stagnate in peace...
Severe slashes in today's swollen enrollment totals must come in the near future if the University is to make its "maximum contribution to the nation's welfare," President Conant urged yesterday in his annual report to the Board of Overseers...
Battle of the Bridge. Konitsa had been picked as the capital of the Communist rebels' newly proclaimed "provisional government." When the battle began, the government garrison in the besieged, isolated town consisted of less than 1,000 men. Konitsa's normal population of 5,000 was swollen by refugees. Rebel shells struck terror among the civilians...
...rebels had dynamited the Bourazani bridge across the rain-swollen Aoos River, apparently the only avenue of relief (see map). When Greek army engineers tried to repair the bridge, they were dispersed by rebel shells from high ground to the north...