Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that the greatest service of Watergate is to deflate swollen notions of the presidency as well as Mr. Nixon. He has lost his "landslide" of last November. He seems now to have just squeaked in, less honorably than he squeaked in back...
...peasants lived on the edge of existence in the swollen urban areas. The Vietnamese villager feels an almost natural bond to his land. These historic ties severed, a cohesive social system based on the family fell apart in the festering urban slums. Young people turned to delinquency, and gangs roamed the streets looking for people to roll...
With that, the Mississippi itself became a sullen, swollen giant, toppling levees, inundating homes and farm lands and roaring through diversionary dikes. In St. Louis the river peaked at 39.8 ft.-its highest level since...
From the fall of 1967 through the spring of 1968, Kasler was tortured frequently by Magoo and an interrogator called "the Elf," because he was a wizened 75-pounder. Kasler was moved into solitary confinement, where he got little medical attention, even though his leg was still swollen and badly infected. But the worst was yet to come. The violent antiwar reaction in the U.S. that followed the Communist 1968 Tet offensive apparently convinced Hanoi that the war could be won by propaganda. A maximum effort was made at the Zoo to get prisoners to appear before various peace delegations...
...stage with such stellar Wagnerian sopranos as Kirsten Flagstad, Frida Leider, Maria Miüller and Helen Traubel. Despite his rigorous schedule, Melchior never canceled a performance, something of a landmark for temperamental opera stars. Once while he was in Götterdämmerung he developed a swollen polyp that choked him; he found that by holding his head to one side he could sing-and sing he did for three hours...