Word: swollenness
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...freighter Henri G., Swiss-owned and registered in Liberia, was far out in the Indian Ocean when a 19-year-old seaman fell sick. He suffered pain in swallowing and could not breathe easily; his tonsils were inflamed, swollen and covered with white spots; glands in his neck were swollen; his temperature...
...logistics that complicate Felt's problems are swollen by merciless statistics. (Korea is 5,500 miles and 45 supply-ship days from San Francisco; Bangkok, main staging point for any operation in Laos, is 9,000 miles and 60 supply-ship days.) To make sense of it all, Don Felt leans heavily on a staff of 240 officers. A carefully chosen political adviser is always at his elbow. But from the carrier ready rooms in the South China Sea to the humming headquarters above Pearl Harbor, there is no doubt about who is "Mr. Pacific." "Mean as Hell...
Ambo was ordained a priest, together with his brother, in 1958. His first assignment was Boiani, fourth largest Anglican mission district in the diocese. To tend its 7,000 natives, scattered through the rugged southern reaches of the Owen Stanley mountain range, Ambo often swam storm-swollen rivers in his shorts, was lucky to cover 20 miles in two days of tramping...
...Negroes among the plant workers. In the center of it all stands a jaunty, greying, middle-sized man, his left hand leaning on a cane, his right hand outstretched in the eternal gesture of the office seeker. "How do you do," he says, pumping his hand, already swollen from handshaking. "I'm unemployed, and I want to go to work for you. My name is Paul Bagwell...
...Swollen Mandarin. Cronin promises to relate, in future installments of People, the "even more trying times that were still ahead." But some Britons had already seen enough. Cassandra, the terrible-tempered columnist of the London Daily Mirror, dubbed Cronin "this swollen mandarin of backstairs protocol," and railed against his "miserable etiquette, his tawdry patronage and his backbiting desire to make money at the expense of his late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals...