Word: swollenness
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Children of War. The streets of Saigon contain an incredible panoply of Hieronymus Bosch figures-limbless veterans stumping about in camouflaged fatigues, hideously napalmed women nursing children on the sidewalks, deaf-mute prostitutes selling their wares in sign language, and lepers holding hats in gnarled, swollen hands. But few are more poignant than the ever-present "street children...
...give Clay credit," said Frazier afterward, while handlers applied ice packs to the swollen knobs on his face. "He takes some punches. Oh, my God, that shot I hit him with in the last round ... I went back home, back to the country for that one." For what had to be the first time in his career, the Louisville Lip was not available for the postfight rehash. He was hustled to the hospital for X rays of his cheek, which was puffed out like a balloon. His jaw, it turned out, was not broken -nor was his spirit. "You lose...
...knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when it was all over, Joe Frazier fainted in his dressing room. Exhausted. Dead tired. Unable to move...
Before the war, the Russians had the biggest embassy in Israel, with as many as 120 employees; they now miss the intelligence gathered by that swollen staff. Restoration of relations would also give the Soviets a chance to move Israel, at least in small ways, away from the U.S. As for the Israelis, renewed relations might enable them to argue their case in Communist capitals...
...woman had been badly beaten. One half of her face was purple and swollen, and her skirt was ripped, Jon Lash '72, who was sitting on bells in Currier House where the woman fled, said...