Word: swollenness
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...autos) in 1960. Though sales slipped during recession-hit 1961, A.M.C. reported a record 137,337 Ramblers sold during the first four months of the 1962 model year, and Abernethy predicts a domestic total of 450,000 for the full year. The company's working capital has swollen from a low of $46 million in 1957 to $103 million at the end of last year. A $10 million, long-term debt has been paid...
...swollen, scandalous thing sits there, an affront to political morality, economic logic and plain common sense. Truman and Eisenhower each had his turn at "the farm problem," and each left it worse than he found it. Last week the Kennedy Administration announced its farm plan...
...salesman. With big bold ads, U.S. bankers who used to talk in dignified whispers are filling newspapers and airwaves with offers of higher interest rates on personal savings accounts. They are out to take business away from the faster-growing savings and loan associations, whose deposits since 1950 have swollen 500% (to $71 billion) while deposits in commercial banks have increased 200% (to $76 billion...
...reiterated his theme: "I'm not sure you have all approached the New Frontier with the greatest possible enthusiasm, and I was, therefore, somewhat nervous about accepting this invitation until I did some studying of history . . . I learned that this organization had once denounced our 'swollen bureaucracy' as among the triumphs of Karl Marx, and decried, on another occasion, new governmental 'paternalism and socialism.' I was comforted when reading this very familiar language to note that I was in very good company. For the first attack I quoted was on Calvin Coolidge and the second...
...letter, he describes his finding that male fantasies of being pregnant lie at the core of such assorted disturbances as bleedings, intestinal worms, indigestion, pericarditis, wens, and other swellings, including obesity. "His (the man's) It creates the swollen stomach by means of eating, drinking, flatulency, or what-not, because it wishes to be pregnant, and accordingly believes itself to be so." To my knowledge, despite the daily usage of such metaphors as "pregnant with meaning," the symbolic importance of pregnancy goes unnoticed these days...