Word: swollenness
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First, he bought an enlarged aerial photograph of the mob scene, ruled it off in 1-in. squares, and used a magnifying glass to count heads. After four hours of eye-wracking work, he reached the total: 2,804-less than half of the swollen newspaper estimates. To find a mathematical short cut to more precise estimation, he showed up at other rallies, noted that the plaza was divided into 22-ft. squares. By counting the number of students in several squares and dividing, he was able to compute the average area occupied by an individual. This varied, he deduced...
...Plums in Sight. For some time, North American has been fretting about its dependence on Government contracts, which now account for more than 95% of its business. Though space and Pentagon orders have swollen annual sales beyond $2 billion for the past three years, in 1965 the company lost its No. 1 spot to rival Boeing, which also happened to be fat with commercial orders. If and when the supersonic-transport program gets under way, North American will assemble wing sections for the prime contractor (Boeing again), but so far its only sizable commercial airframe business is building Sabreliner corporate...
Falstaff. Inside every fat man there is supposed to be a thin man screaming to get free. Inside Orson Welles there is just another fat man. At the age of 51, the onetime enfant terrible of cinema has finally allowed the swollen stranger in him to break loose. The stranger's name is Falstaff...
...with 11,500 employees are also studying whether to take their head offices out of Manhattan. As for their reasons, Yaseen called the labor market "unfavorable," labor leaders "unsympathetic," and "complaints regarding clerical workers universal." On top of that, said Yaseen, businessmen grumble about "commuting, the rising crime rate, swollen welfare rolls and the subway strike. New York is not a happy place...
...showdown came when Fertel fired a kitchen-worker who was unable to perform his old job because of swollen hands. The workers claimed that there was no reason for the firing. The kitchen-worker could have been transferred to a new job. They demanded that Fertel reinstate the kitchen-worker and Keady and that he recognize the union...