Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the Associated Press, Nixon, his eyes swollen from lack of sleep and flashing anger, accused the press of distorting his statements...
Rushing to Cut Back. The drought was particularly painful because in the last two years many firms had invested heavily in new electronic equipment and personnel to service a flood of bull-market orders. Now, in an effort to cut swollen overhead, some were driven to drastic economies. In Glore, Forgan & Co.'s Chicago branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count...
...years, impelled by common enemies-Israel and Gamal Abdel Nasser-whom they both hate more than they ever hated each other. Both are lumped together by Radio Cairo as "reactionary, feudal, degenerate, corrupt monarchies bleeding the Arab people." Oil-rich Saud has granted some economic aid to poor, refugee-swollen Jordan, and Hussein has become a frequent visitor to Saud's vast, anachronistic fief...
Political refugees are getting a cool reception in many parts of the world, but few are so unpopular as those who are pouring into France's seaport city of Marseille. They are the refugee European pieds-noirs from Algeria. Since May 1, the new arrivals have swollen Marseille's population from 800,000 to nearly 1,000.000-and the city is beginning to burst at the seams. "The pieds-noirs are like sleeping pills," said one local official. "You can safely swallow only a certain dose...
...damage suits for personal injuries suffered in auto accidents increase in number and produce greatly swollen sums in settlement, many a U.S. lawyer has become as familiar with Gray's Anatomy as with Blackstone. Now he is likely to start studying Freud as well. Last week, as 1,800 members of the National Association of Claimants' Counsel of America met in Denver to bone up on medicine, they heard the clearest descriptions yet offered of the psychological types that are most, and least, likely to crack up their cars...