Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admitted, "to find a roadblock beyond every turn." He crossed the border on foot, hiking twelve miles over thickly wooded terrain. After seeking help from three blacks, who told him, "Don't worry, we'll help you-you're one of us." Woods reached the rain-swollen Telle River and forded it to safety...
There is a light-year's gap between the living standards of the masses and those of a growing middle class. A low-ranking civil servant in Egypt's swollen, slow-moving bureaucracy may earn no more than $45 a month; an evening at currently fashionable Jackie's Disco in Cairo costs $60 per person. Some of the affluent Egyptians who can afford a summer home in Alexandria are uncomfortable about the disparity between their country's two nations. Says one wealthy, Harvard-educated Cairene: "I feel like a foreigner when I'm with the Egyptian lower class. When...
...prefers to have them delivered orally. Most letters from Jimmy Carter, for example, are read to him aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same time the public does. When Sadat finally does arrive at a decision, it is usually irreversible. "He has a will of iron," says one military officer...
...Crimson margin of victory might have been greater had Celine Larkin not aggravated a thigh injury and forfeited her last battle. Larkin yesterday explained that her thigh is very swollen and that she cannot predict whether she will be out a few days or a few weeks with the injury...
During the weekend, 5 in. of rain had fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege...