Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
...letter sent to protesting students; curt, concise Timeditors explained the misstatement by quoting an Associated Press report of the move. The Lucesleuths felt the full fury of Cantabridgian scorn, complaining that their mail has swollen with exclamations of the unfortunate absence of any such luxury...
...children on the head. But raging floods had driven thousands of Siamese from their homes, destroyed half the rice crop, brought on a famine which was increased by the shipping shortage. The Japanese felt it necessary to deny, by radio, that they were responsible for the drenching skies and swollen rivers...
Twenty or more thousand square miles in northern Honan Province are clutched in the grip of hunger. Men and women are eating the bark of trees and grass roots; swollen-bellied children are being sold for grain. Thousands have already died, hundreds of thousands are failing, ten millions face the slow winter-long agony of starvation. Causes: 1) the Japanese, who destroyed the rice before they retreated; 2) the gods, who sent no rain for the wheat...
Sept. 3-Reached river bottom below extreme peaks, bathed, washed bandages, dried feet. One toe very badly swollen...