Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices on days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats who paid $5, or sometimes $3 and a bottle of whisky, for a vote. They successfully challenged hundreds of names on swollen voter-registration lists, including those of people long since dead or moved away...
...Italian given to white shirts, gray suits and highly polished black shoes. He rarely touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...
When they found him dead in his bed, his face was discolored and swollen. An autopsy disclosed that his skull had been fractured and part of his brain reduced to a pulp. After careful investigation, the police established that there had been two murderers and identified them as brothers who lived in a neighboring apartment. The killers had dropped their victim repeatedly on the floor, struck him again and again with a woman's high-heeled shoe and bitten him several times. What was even more unusual, however, was the age of those involved in the case: the slayers...
...have already clouded the picture for today's contest. Starting linkman Emmanuel Ekama, a vital man in the Harvard lineup, may have sustained a serious injury in practice Thursday when a teammate stepped on his heel. An immediate prognosis has not been made, but Ekama's ankle was sufficiently swollen Friday to present him from playing...
Thirty Years' War. That big "attrit" has proved incredibly long and costly. With its war-swollen cities, South Viet Nam now has the population distribution of a highly industrialized country-but there is almost no industry in Viet Nam. There are still artisans, out in what American soldiers call "Indian country," using their centuries-old skills to fashion land mines. Saigon has become an arsenal of U.S. consumer goods, from prefab houses to athlete's foot powder, ordered and sometimes resold by Saigon officials. Since U.S. personnel changes roughly every twelve months, Americans tend to maintain a kind...