Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traced by war-and are maintained by military strength. No really independent state has ever long survived without military power and a willingness to use it. CULTURE AND THE ARTS. "At all times," says Andreski, "weapons were the most advanced gadgets which any civilization has possessed." More important, states swollen by conquest can support a leisure class without which, the author maintains, science and the arts might never have arisen. He points out that technological progress makes its greatest strides under the prod of war, from the stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations...
...reeking dumps and an ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists go so far as to advocate a no-growth society; they call upon...
Although the occupation of University Hall was "brought about by a small number of the revolutionaries against the wishes of the majority." their forces "were greatly swollen by many young people who were genuinely and seriously concerned about the professed issues advanced...
...CLIVE GARCIA was photographed with his mother just before he returned to Viet Nam. He wrote a note on the back of it: "Your eyes are swollen. You've cried too much, Mom. Life itself really isn't this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...