Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election year, is a lively theater piece laid at a fanciful 1960 national convention and concerned with a fierce struggle between two would-be nominees. Former Secretary of State Melvyn Douglas is urbane, intellectual and endowed with scruples; Senator Frank Lovejoy is self-made, self-obsessed and swollen with ambition. When a tough old pro of an ex-President rejects the role of kingmaker, Lovejoy plans to knock out Douglas by reviving a forgotten mental breakdown; and if Douglas will stoop, he in turn can bring up an old Army scandal...
...misleads and deceives by many tricks, and takes wayfarers out of the way. Thus, he calls at a distance by beating a tattoo on his swollen abdomen. The noise, as I have heard it, is not unlike the muffled roar of the waterfall near by." Though painted in Japan, La Farge's deep purple glade reflects a typically American feeling for nature as something both seductive and fearful...
Less Pressure. Operations are of several types and designed to remove varying amounts of prostate tissue. Invariably their purpose is to relieve the pressure of the swollen gland on the urethra, which passes through it, to permit easy urination. In cancerous cases the entire gland is sometimes removed. The gland's response to the sex-hormone balance is shown by the fact that many prostate cancer patients apparently live longer if they are castrated. And female sex hormones are sometimes used instead of surgical castration. But this still does not prove that the hormone changes of advancing years cause...
...more week of heavy Luftwaffe bombing, Author Collier argues, and London might not have justified his book's ornately Churchillian title. The city had fumbled badly since the beginning of the blitz: fire-fighting brigades, their tough prewar ranks swollen by amateurs, were poorly coordinated, and water reserves were badly located. Worse, 35 weeks of bombardment had hardened London into taking business and pleasure as usual; on the night of the great raid, perhaps half the fire watchers were AWOL...