Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Congressmen remain skeptical. Democrat Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana thinks the proposed budget is grotesquely swollen. Says Jacobs: "How unrealistic can this Government get? The difference between a $13 million investigation and a $500,000 investigation is that with the former, ways will somehow be found to waste...
Symbolically, however, the importance of steel prices has, if anything, been swollen by decades of publicity. Steel still goes into an extraordinarily broad variety of products; makers of goods ranging from autos to toasters may seize on steel boosts, justifiably or not, as an excuse to raise their own prices. And makers of many other basic materials tend to watch how politicians react to steel increases as a clue to what price hikes they themselves may get away with...
...present crisis began in September, when intense speculation forced the government to cut the overvalued peso loose from its two-decade mooring at 12.5 to the U.S. dollar. Wary of Mexico's swollen, $24 billion debt and mounting balance of payments deficit, investors began a precipitate capital exodus, dropping the value of the peso more than 40%. In late October, renewed trading forced a second round of devaluation, tumbling the peso to 24.5 to the dollar-half its previous value. Inflation bounded, approaching an annual rate of 30%. Worse, the government has announced huge jumps in the price...
Plains on this day was swollen with tourists-from Los Angeles, Akron, Germany-all eager to be part of this first page of a new chapter in history. They trailed along as Carter strolled two blocks to the peanut house. They explored Billy Carter's service station. They snapped happily as Miss Lillian rolled by in a Georgia state police...
...character who requires fleshing-out. Prince Hal's drinking chum can hardly be made rounder or thirstier. Nor does he present a puzzle: his belly is his biography. Nevertheless, Robert Nye, a British poet who lives in Scotland, has had the colossal cheek to come forward with this swollen, rumbustical bladder of a book, supposedly Falstaffs bragging last confessions...