Word: swollenness
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...been the most exciting period of the trial. From Thursday to Monday, the gallery was swarming with his partisans, who urged him on with barely repressed gesticulations; the special interest groups were plying the assemblage with their canned arguments during recesses outside the courtroom; the press section was swollen with national reporters and court artists, who all perhaps sought the glimmerings of sensationalism, and the defense did not shrink, of course from injecting the testimony with a little high drams...
...century of history has brought little change. Corruption is still ubiquitous-but so, happily, is the editorial cartoon, grinning out from banks of gray prose. In about 16 square inches, that journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant...
...Revenue sharing, accounting for 4% to 5% of municipal budgets, is flowing into cities at levels set in October 1972, when the law was passed. Since then, the cost of running city governments has swollen as much as 15% in some urban areas. Many cities raise most of the rest of their money from property taxes, which are often based on assessed valuations that have not been raised to reflect inflation...
...city is slightly swollen with pride and somewhat torn between shouting to the world that it is not a hick cow town any more and keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each...
...bathroom for the first time, then taken back to my cell and hung by handcuffs on the door for the night. I was in a standing position, the handcuffs so tight on my wrists that circulation was nearly cut off; my left hand had been sprained and was painfully swollen. I passed the night standing and occasionally dozing, then being jerked awake as I sagged toward the floor and the cuffs pulled painfully on my wrists...