Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage raises will cost studios about $20 million over their 1941 annual average. Much of it can come from swollen box-office receipts, although some studios are in for tough sledding if this falls off. But Herbert Sorrell isn't worried about that. Said he chestily: "From now on, we dictate...
...Picasso (64), who sometimes changes his style when he changes women, recently shifted his affections to a new girl friend. He has had no new "period" since the broken teeth, swollen hands and multiplying eyes of his Spanish War mural, Guernica...
Most of the witnesses' fire had been concentrated on the small body of officers "inherently unqualified or inadequately trained," who popped up inevitably in an Army swollen fortyfold in wartime. As a remedy, the board recommended a major overhaul of the officer corps. Most significant repairs: promotion by merit instead of seniority; prompt dismissal or demotion of incompetents...
Famine is not always quickly seen. In cold, rainy weather, padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...
...never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...