Word: swollenness
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...soon reach its goal of reducing the rate to 4% . In addition to some 200,000 work ers who are considered permanently un employable, there are countless others who require lengthy retraining or have to be moved from depressed areas to where the jobs are. The rate is also swollen by the hundreds of thousands of Americans who seek only a few hours of work each week but until they find it are classified as unemployed...
...blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk products) among their luggage and fed them to the children. They cooled their faces with urine-soaked clothes, and buried themselves neck-deep in sand to escape the scorching air. They had just abandoned hope when a rescue party...
...artists' sense of professionalism. He also suffered from a nonacademic thirst for painting nature directly, out of doors. Soon he was outside, capturing with rapid brush strokes the luminous sparkle of Paris streets after quick cloudbursts. Detail dropped out. Against an overcast, his clusters of black umbrellas suggested swollen, devilish halos. Unlike Sargent, Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering its parks and pavements with a stubborn gentility that admitted only such locales as Central Park and Fifth Avenue as proper subjects for oils...
...least part of their lives by the time they are 18. Dependent-children relief checks go to more than half of all Negro children at some time during their childhood, v. 8% of white children. Disintegration of families, said the report, is the principal cause of low IQs, the swollen crime rate, narcotics addiction...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: London's Grass Courts Championship by default over the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, 22, who pulled out an hour before the match because of an injured thumb that had become so swollen that "I couldn't grip the racket...