Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by rash, fever, swollen glands and pain in the joints. In a few cases, the response is so fast and catastrophic that it is called anaphylactic shock, a violent reaction usually associated with the introduction of foreign protein into the system. A patient thus afflicted may die within minutes...
...Cairo, Nasser's own two sons volunteered for military service, inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take...
Typical is a series that ran in the women's section of the Seattle Times. In full and numbing detail, Women's Editor Dorothy Brant Brazier described house wife alcoholics in Seattle: how they keep their window shades perpetually drawn, how they dare not show their swollen faces at P.T.A. meetings, how they neglect their children and outrage their husbands...
...Often there is a feeling of extreme well-being, exaltation, excitement, and inner joyousness (described as "high"). . . . The subject may sink into a moody revery, or experience panic states and fear of death (described as "down") . . . . Minutes seem to be hours, and seconds seem minutes. .. . The head often feels swollen and the extremeties feel heavy...
...rapid, disconnected, and uncontrollable. There may be feelings of well-being, exaltation, and excitement -- that is, being "high." Or, at other times there may be a "down" with moodiness, fear of death, and panic.... Seconds may seem like minutes, minutes may seem like hours....the head may feel swollen and extremeties heavy...