Word: swollenness
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...more he acts like Christ, the more cruelly he is razzed by his diabolical editor ("Leper licker," Shrike calls him. "Still more swollen Mussolini of the soul"). Thinking to help, Miss Lonelyhearts arranges to meet one of his correspondents, a woman with a crippled husband. She rapes him. In the last scene, "his identification with God complete," Miss Lonelyhearts tries to envelop in cosmic pity the crippled husband-who seems to stand for long-suffering humanity. Terrified, the cripple shoots him dead...
...many respects the new Prime Minister was doing rather well. Northern Ireland was quieter, and last week the Ulster government banned all processions for six months, reducing the likelihood of renewed rioting. Maintaining his reputation as a superb administrator and delegator of authority, Heath cut his predecessor's swollen ministerial list, reducing the Cabinet from 21 to 18 and top non-Cabinet posts from 78 to 66. He also ordered a searching systems analysis of Whitehall's decision-making machinery, using top management experts recruited from private business. With care, he began charting measures to deal with "stagflation...
...National Assembly to strengthen the war effort, declared national mobilization. A decree ordered every Cambodian man and woman between the ages of 18 and 60 to aid the national defense and made all property subject to confiscation. It will probably be many months before Cambodia's swollen army of some 120,000 men-only half of whom have even been issued weapons -can absorb new recruits. Moreover, the nation needs its citizens for productive labor almost as desperately as it needs them for fighting. Since the war spread to the interior, Cambodia's exports, chiefly rubber and rice...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all. At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us- gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor desire nor even hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That's how I will begin. Clay first, then...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all, At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us-gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor desire nor even hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That's how I will begin. Clay first, then...