Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the semifinals, Gonzales awoke with his left ankle sore and swollen. He paid no attention to it, waded through ex-National Singles Champion Don Mc-Neill...
...refugee-swollen Shanghai a child collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...
...Greek character of Oedipus (Swollen or Wounded Foot) has been employed in modern times to illustrate and to symbolize this affliction. There are very sound psychological and biological reasons why the legs should be affected by the relations between a man and his parents, which is the essence, superficially, of the Oedipus situation. The King's stammer is also relevant here, especially in connection with the right foot...
...picked up. It lifted 50 feet into the air before the towline snapped. A week later it,happened again with a new glider. Two more airmen were left stranded. By Christmas Day, the C-47 survivors had been down for 16 days, and the original seven-man group had swollen...
Looking for Bargains. The people of Canada had ended World War II with swollen savings accounts. Now high prices had rubbed down the swelling. People wanted to hold on to what savings they had left, if not for a rainy day, then for cloudy days...