Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cellars not used as forts, Budapest's civilians huddled, their normal numbers of 1,000,000 swollen to perhaps 2,000,000 by refugees who had fled the war-ravaged countryside expecting to find safety in the city. They were dying by hundreds...
...looking back over this record at year's end, Ottawa bigwigs were, as usual, issuing hopeful statements. But Canadians knew that, more than for most countries, this war-swollen trade was the biggest question mark in Canada's future. The Dominion's 12,000,000 people could never consume all that her fisheries, farms and machines could produce...
...weeks Paris weather had been like London-rain nearly every day. The Marne, the Oise and the Seine had risen until André stood hip-deep in water. To watching Parisians it seemed that this time André was doomed to drown in the swollen Seine. Quayside storage spaces, where the precious household goods of bombed-out Parisians were kept, were flooded. The muddy waters spread over suburban areas. Worst of all, there was no longer sufficient space under the bridges for the barges to pass with their precious coal cargoes for Parisians, who felt just as frozen as Andr...
Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...
...chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever drops in about two weeks...