Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That display produced an additional 50 volunteers, and today his force has swollen to over...
...girls' fieldhockey jamboree compared with the mayhem on the greensward at Gracie Mansion when New York Mayor John Lindsay and his pals take the field. After the latest game, one aide had landed in the hospital with a broken hand and two others were hobbling around with badly swollen shins. And Hizzoner unscathed. In fact, despite striking teachers and recalcitrant policemen he was dressed up for a night out on the town with his wife. "We always play this way," he said...
...Crimson came out of the game without any serious new injuries. Outside Gerry Montero, who played only half a game due to a persistently aggravated groin muscle, will continue to do so at Dartmouth on Friday. Fullback Bill Brock suffers from a swollen ankle, but the fullback situation has brightened with the improved play of Hilary Worthen who has been filling in for the injured Bob Gray...
...Stewart replied that he was there to buy canned milk, the cop spat, "Don't go getting smart." Stewart and eight witnesses claim that he was grappled into the squad car and pounded with night stick, fist and flashlight. Subsequent photos show Stewart's nose broken, eyes swollen nearly shut on a puffy face, the back of his head cratered by deep open wounds. Stewart received a probationary sentence for loitering and resisting arrest...
...distance the party has come since the dismal post-Goldwater days. When the Republican Governors met in Denver to conduct a post mortem on the 1964 election, the party was at its nadir. It had lost the presidency by the greatest popular margin in history. The Democrats had swollen 2-to-1 majorities in both the Senate and the House, and 33 of the nation's 50 Governors as well...