Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind. And then there was the sharp outline of a snowy peak against the blue winter sky, the green of pines along the Sherburne trail, and the bright flash of skiers as they hissed through the new powder snow. And then when spring came there was canoeing down the swollen New England rivers, through the rushing white water of the spring freshets...
...Monge first encountered mountain sickness in 1924 when an engineer stumbled into his office on swollen legs, gasping for breath. His face was bluish red, as though he had been choked, his eyelids were swollen, all the superficial blood vessels in his body appeared distended. He was weak, drowsy, suffered from spells of blindness and deafness. When he was taken down to sea level he was "completely cured." Since then, he gradually worked his way up to 10,000 feet. Other victims, who look healthy, may go temporarily crazy...
...early part of the afternoon when the Varsity is turning out for practice. Joe Murphy, who runs the supply room, estimates that the trainers wind 100 miles of tape around uncertain joints during the course of the year, and the amount of energy put into rubbing down swollen limbs is incalculable...
...five-year-old boy lay in bed burning with fever, his right groin swollen. Suspecting that this was no ordinary disease, his doctor took a sample of fluid from the swollen gland, started home to examine it. But near the house he saw something that confirmed his terrible suspicions: a batch of dead squirrels...
...becoming the biggest union in the U.S., last week U.A.W. was fairly busting its pants. In two years its dues-paying membership had tripled, was around half a million. Its bank account had swollen 650% to a fat $439,663. Holding its sixth convention, in Buffalo, chesty U.A.W. changed its name to the United Auto, Aircraft and Agricultural Implements Workers, announced a membership goal of 1,000,000 in the next four years...