Word: swollenness
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...that registers the other side of the surface caught by the retina. I watch it in the way I feel about getting ogled in the street. My body used to go taut with suppressed fury, and now I bristle ironically--"that puffy red-faced one there with the beery swollen jowls and lecherous look is a cracker, don't even try to meet his leer because his head is so far away that he's going to play any response you make by his rules." I watch its progression in the fact that I have stopped going back to first...
...myth that inflation is good for the stock market has been thoroughly exploded: a comparison of high-inflation years like 1947, 1951 and 1969 with low-inflation years like 1958, 1961 and 1967 indicates that stock prices rise much faster when other prices are relatively stable. Two reasons: inflation-swollen costs eventually tend to limit corporate profits, and every inflation raises the threat of a recession brought on by Government action to cool off the economy...
...cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that the greatest service of Watergate is to deflate swollen notions of the presidency as well as Mr. Nixon. He has lost his "landslide" of last November. He seems now to have just squeaked in, less honorably than he squeaked in back...
...peasants lived on the edge of existence in the swollen urban areas. The Vietnamese villager feels an almost natural bond to his land. These historic ties severed, a cohesive social system based on the family fell apart in the festering urban slums. Young people turned to delinquency, and gangs roamed the streets looking for people to roll...
With that, the Mississippi itself became a sullen, swollen giant, toppling levees, inundating homes and farm lands and roaring through diversionary dikes. In St. Louis the river peaked at 39.8 ft.-its highest level since...