Word: swollenness
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...even touched him. Under the strain of a sudden stop, his tensed knee had simply collapsed. First aid consisted of ice packs, and a couple of days later Alabama Surgeon Ernest C. Brock Jr. removed some fluid ("water on the knee") by inserting a hollow needle in the swollen joint...
...Swollen Ankles. But there was no backing out now. What was more, Sukarno said, Indonesia wanted no more aid from U.N. agencies-a remark that must have stirred the bellies of his underfed audience. "What is UNICEF?" cried Sukarno. "It is powdered milk. I prefer to eat cassava [a flour-yielding root]. FAO sends experts who know nothing about Indonesia's agriculture. I say to them, To hell with your...
...might have kept him in the dark about the whole thing until now? True, the 63-year-old Sukarno has had his health problems. One kidney is said to be out of commission, and the other has a stone; of late Sukarno has sometimes appeared in public barefoot, with swollen ankles. Did health account for his erratic behavior...
...Oregon, a new, 165-ft.-high, 6,000-ft.-long highway bridge collapsed, car rying a man in his car to death in the savage, swollen floodwaters. A spreading flood from the Willamette River forced evacuation of Salem's Memorial Hospital, and 1,000 other Salem people packed their belongings and fled for high ground. Elsewhere in the state, people were drowned as their cars washed over fallen bridges or were electrocuted by torn power lines. At Reedsport, a railroad bridge across the Umpqua River was opened for a three-story house which floated out into the Pacific Ocean...
...performed an operation that only a few years ago would have seemed dangerous indeed. He slit open the 70-year-old duke's belly and cut down to the aorta, the body's main artery, on which he found a 4-in. section that had swollen into an aneurysm, much as an inner tube will balloon through a weakness in its rubber wall. In 67 min. of delicate surgery, Dr. DeBakey cut out the aneurysm and replaced it with a length of knitted Dacron tubing...