Word: swollenness
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When myxomatosis was accidentally imported* into England in 1953, the homeland of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail was horrified. Every rabbit from Penzance to the Orkneys, it seemed, was dying or dead. Stricken animals with grotesquely swollen heads hobbled aimlessly on highways, and carcasses lay stinking in ditches...
...first instinct of the Red rulers was to let the city wither and die as a hated symbol of capitalism. The busy docks, which had berthed as many as 30 ships a day, stood empty; factories were stripped of machinery; efforts were made to reduce Shanghai's "swollen and unreasonable" population by deporting surplus workers to the provinces. A wave of suicides swept the city. Foreigners, who had once numbered 60,000, dwindled to a handful (there are now fewer than 100 Westerners, of whom 53 are British), while the Reds confiscated millions of dollars' worth of Western...
...Many functions of government have been taken over by a "Fourth Branch," the swollen federal bureaucracy, over which Congress has only remote and tenuous control...
...hour day. "A danger to health!" cried the Union of Civil Servants, and public workers accustomed to holding second, private jobs, grumbled that the longer hours might force them to give up their government sinecures. That was fine with Frondizi, who hopes thereby to cut 1) the swollen civil service that comprises a third of the nation's workers, and 2) the government budget deficit of $108 million...
...describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...