Word: swollenness
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Next day the hand was hot and so swollen it seemed ready to burst. The surgeons cut gashes in the skin between the fingers and down the back of the hand, and applied strong salt compresses to draw the fluid out. Very smart, said the U.S. surgeons in their critique. The swelling subsided within a week. After two months the metal plate was removed, but the bones were healing poorly, so the surgeons packed in bone chips as a sort of cement...
...centuries that have passed since they toppled into the jungle. But most of Mexico's ancient art is less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display...
...ground, another 86 on passes, run his season's rushing total to 787 yds.-almost twice that of any other back in the league. His point output: 60, tops in the league. The Giants had done all they could to stop him: his left arm was bandaged and swollen; there were purple bruises over and under both eyes and on the bridge of his nose. Brown only grinned. Said Giant Halfback Frank Gifford: "That Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown...
...modestly enhanced by the flight pay that is partially earned in orbit: some $80 for every quick trip around the earth. But there are fringe benefits too: the seven original spacemen got about $70,000 each for selling personal accounts of their experiences to LIFE. Last week, their ranks swollen by nine new volunteers, the astronauts did just about as well with the second chapter of their story. For a total of $1,040,000, they sold the publishing rights to LIFE and to Field Enterprises Educational Corp. of Chicago...
Always an Outcast. When Mahlke is 14 and dozing beside an athletic field, a classmate thrusts a playful kitten on his "mouse"-the word he uses throughout the book to describe his swollen Adam's apple. Mahlke becomes savagely self-conscious about the mouse. In winter, he fixes his scarf high over it with a safety pin and constantly reaches up with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision...