Word: swollenness
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...chopper spiraled down from its 4,500-ft. cruising altitude, darted over the flood-swollen Mekong toward a riverbank landing spot. Cambodian soldiers sucking Buddha amulets for luck leaped from the helicopter, lugging cases of food and ammo as they sprinted for shelter. As I jumped out of my seat and sloshed through knee-deep water toward the shore, insurgents began firing at us: the pilot had ill-advisedly put us down in a no-man's land between the two forces. We were lucky...
...asking, whether this life was worth living. There is nothing here of the noble Willa Gather nostalgia for a Nebraska full of giants, or the facile Hemingway nostalgia for a Michigan of pliant girls and truly good trout. By the time Floyd is murdered for his watch, he has swollen into a huge and lonely figure. His death can stand for that of the white man's America, or of the whole human race. He never has had much use for that latter one anyway...
Several weeks before V-E day, Wilhelm Wulff was summoned for a last conference with Himmler, who looked swollen, reeked of liquor, and periodically broke down and started sobbing. "What's going to happen?" Himmler cried. "Why don't you tell me? Tell me, tell me what I am supposed to do!" Wulff answered that for his part he intended to go home and wait for the arrival of the allied armies. If he saw in any of his horoscopes that Himmler was soon to commit suicide, he does not tell us. He does end on a note...
...hour before the wet dawn of Nov. 4, 1966, the swollen Arno River sent cataracts of water sluicing through the narrow streets of Florence and deposited half a million tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing...
...long and bitter war for national sovereignty and unity, this solution was less than ideal. But each side--the liberals and the communists--believed that Vietnam would be united under its own system of government in the national elections scheduled for 1956. And in the south, the middle-classes, swollen by refugees from the hostile north, set out to build a political democracy in which they could build a flourishing capitalist economy...