Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving down interstate 81 through the green hills of eastern Pennsylvania one week after Hurricane Agnes swept over the countryside, the only indications that one is approaching the town most devastated by the storm are the few swollen streams along the highway and the bulletins broadcast continuously on WBRE, the Wilkes-Barre radio station...
Modern medicine has more potent weapons. Ergotamine tartrate, an ergot, or rye fungus derivative, constricts painfully swollen blood vessels and helps many migraine-and cluster-headache patients. Tranquilizers can also provide short-term relief of the tension that can trigger a severe headache. Psychological treatment to uncover emotional causes has worked for many people. But for some patients, nothing works very well. Taking what small solace they can from the fact that they are in famous company, they must do what headache sufferers have done for many centuries -learn to endure their ailment...
...offered Lola $250,000 if she would quietly go away; Lola threw the money in his emissary's face. Then Metternich organized a student riot, and Lola fell into his trap. Haughtily, she got Ludwig to close the university. The students rioted again, and now the riot was swollen by thousands of tradespeople who stood to lose the students' business. Barricades went up all over town; revolution was pending. "I will never abandon Lola!" the King shouted. "She is the most noble of creatures. My crown for Lola!" Persuaded at last that the mob would kill...
...that they were as tough as his screen image--it's the price one pays. And Pacino doesn't seem to mind playing to his own brand-new myth. How did he get the role of Michael?, someone asks. "Oh, I can't talk about that," he replies, voice swollen with meaning. How did he feel playing that murderous restaurant scene? "To kill two people is really an incredible thing, quite an experience"--deadpan. People laugh nervously, impressed. It doesn't seem to occur to them that Pacino wasn't born with those hard Corleone eyes, that even, noncommital Corleone...
Nowhere was the South Vietnamese failure more evident-or more costly in military and civilian lives-than in the siege of An Loc, a provincial capital of approximately 17,000 people 60 miles north of Saigon. Its population had been swollen by 6,000 men of the battered South Vietnamese 5th Division and some 2,000 refugees who had fled south after the fall of the district town of Loc Ninh three weeks ago. North Vietnamese troops threw a cordon around...