Word: swollenness
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...just still shocked,” said Garcia. “I have bruises, my head was swollen, and I’m still sore. Even with the physical pain, I still can’t believe that it happened—it just seems very surreal...
...frozen while I was thrown against a wall and punched repeatedly. Luckily, my friend called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and officers arrived in under a minute. I have cuts, bruises, and lumps on my chest, my back is sore, and a large area of my head is swollen and throbbing painfully. The day after, as I sat the holding ice packs to my head and popping ibuprofen every four hours to dull the pain, I felt completely disconnected—as if I were watching myself on a theater-sized screen...
...task force on AIDS. "They have no symptoms at all or very minimal symptoms, but they have persistent infection and are probably persistently infectious to others." Another group suffers a mild version of immune-system depression, with symptoms and signs that include malaise, weight loss, fevers and swollen lymph nodes. This syndrome, called AIDS-related complex, or ARC, sometimes but not always develops into full-blown AIDS...
...Reagan, whose lusty 62% positive job-performance rating remains near its historic high. Even though the national economy has just completed three years of expansion, only 27% of respondents believe they are better off economically under Reagan, while 28% think their economic situation has deteriorated. Concern over the swollen federal deficit and U.S. economic health continue to rank first and second among problems facing the country, well ahead of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war. Yet, despite their reservations about the President's hawkish summit stance, many voters claim they feel more comfortable after five years...
...avalanche poured down on Armero, it gained additional ferocity from several sources. Three days of torrential rains had greatly swollen the Lagunilla River, which was already choked with mudslides from the volcano's tentative stirrings in September. At that time geologists from the surrounding federal department of Tolima had expressed concern about the dangers from the dammed-up river. At first the departmental governor, Eduardo Alzate Garca, said that "there are no immediate risks." Two days later he changed his mind. The geologists declared the region at the base of the volcano a local emergency area, and Alzate planned...