Word: swollenness
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Originally intended by the Nazis for "instruction purposes" but shelved for fear they might provoke sympathy for the Jews, the SS shots show German soldiers looking on with pleasure as Jews with swollen knees and fleshless legs drop to the ground and die. Children lie dying on filthy cots. Then, as heads in the audience lower, the camera pans along a trundling line of corpse-filled push carts to the edge of a lime pit, where the bodies are sent sprawling down a chute...
...Britain, the Tories still hold the husk of the Establishment and hope in the upcoming elections to make it "Four in a Row." The new element is the familiar Anti-Nuclear Bomb movement of today, but in FitzGibbon's time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power, the fat of 1,000 years of British history...
Hoping to catch the assassins before they could flee the country, security agents closed down Venezuela's ports. To reassure the nation that he himself was all right, Betancourt showed himself to the press. His face was scorched, his fore head was peeling, his swollen lips were smeared with healing jelly, and his eyes behind his dark-rimmed glasses were puffy. But he waved his bandaged paws cheerfully, and within hours was back at Miraflores Palace...
...upset was especially sweet. After winning the Kentucky Derby on Venetian Way, he had been publicly blasted by Venetian Way's trainer and fired as the horse's rider for finishing a poor fifth in the Preakness to Bally Ache (who missed the Belmont with a swollen foot). Owned by a retired Boston banker named Joseph O'Connell, the English-bred Celtic Ash had trained for more than a year for the i½-mile grind of the Belmont, paid off its backers at 8 to 1. Said Jockey Hartack: "He sure was dying...
...ordinary day. He woke up at dawn. In the corner, he could make out the crumpled figure of the oldest member of their work detail. Old Wong was suffering from the national malady of peasant China, beriberi, or the "no-vegetable sickness." Kou helped Wong up, noticing his horribly swollen feet. Fearing punishment if they reported late to the fields five miles away, Kou and the younger men trotted off, leaving Wong to hobble along behind...