Word: swollenness
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Such an optimistic view runs counter to those expressed privately in the White House, which hold that the primaries have dangerously divided an already undersubscribed party, in which the conservative element has swollen in influence as moderates have fled the party. The very real fear of a number of Republican professionals is that President Ford, in painting Reagan as an extremist who cannot win, and Reagan, in depicting the President as too weak and indecisive to lead the nation effectively, may both turn out to have been all too persuasive...
Reflecting Friedman's antipathy to government intervention in the economy, Chile has sold many state companies to private investors at bargain prices. The swollen bureaucracy has been slashed drastically to reduce government spending. Some price controls have been lifted. Tariff restrictions are gradually being eased, in the hope that foreign competition will force local industry to become more efficient...
...hospital beds to work in the countryside. This set the pattern. The populations of every city have been evacuated-young, old, sick, well-and forced, at rifle point, to work in the rice fields. All shops, schools and hospitals have been closed. Phnom-Penh has shrunk from a war-swollen population of 2.5 million to an empty and lifeless shell...
...Soon the swollen contours and lush col ors of paintings like Braque's Still Life with Pitchers, 1906, would give way to the austerities of cubism. The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented. As Elderfield notes in the catalogue, "Matisse's ideal voluptuous world only fully emerged when Fauvism had ended, and could only be created by renouncing that part of it he felt to be excessive...
...Recuperating slowly in a medical tent, he sat at the orderly's typewriter and pecked out his most personal and moving poems, the great Pisan Cantos. With eyes unsealed by shock, Pound finally saw himself as he was seen-a vain "beaten dog beneath the hail/ A swollen magpie in a fitful sun." He was flown back to the States to face trial for treason, but the case never came to judgment. Declared hopelessly insane. Pound was committed to a federal bedlam in the District of Columbia...