Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streaks of tobacco dye that covered the bruises on the girl's leg. An expert in herbal medicine in the girl's village had applied the tobacco in line with an ancient tradition that prescribes herbal cures for injuries of all kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with its two weeks of fracture, clutched the edge of the bed and closed her eyes as the doctor lightly touched the tobacco stains. Still joking with his assistant, he put on his white gloves and prepared to apply the plaster cast...
...million residents of refugee-swollen Phnom-Penh heeded this appeal last week by the clandestine radio of the Khmer Insurgents. Although artillery and rocket attacks on the Cambodian capital have already killed an estimated 340 civilians and wounded another 800 since last December, the inevitability of a rebel ground attack on the city in the near future seems far from certain. Since the current dry-season offensive began, the forces of Cambodian President Lon Nol have blunted three separate attempts by the Communist-led guerrillas to drive into the capital...
...while more than 1,500 attacked from outside. Taking government forces by surprise, they quickly overran the airport, occupied the headquarters of the 1st Army Brigade, and captured nearby Notre Dame College. The government counterattacked with more than 5,000 troops and ordered the city -whose population had been swollen to 80,000 by refugees-to be strafed by F-86 Sabre jets and bombarded by gunboats in the Sulu Sea and army units using mortars and 105-mm. howitzers...
...Detroit, a small child is admitted to the hospital, his eyes swollen with blows, his mouth devoid of front teeth. The assailant: his mother...
...Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...