Word: swollenness
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...tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
...Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active...
About one in ten of the officers was stubbornly hostile. "A few were real Nazi types," said one Israeli, "swollen with feelings of racial superiority." But in general the scheme was so successful that it was extended to enlisted men, who toured in buses under guard of three soldiers...
...disciplined; the other, "once you "got in you could walk around in it." Asks Osborn: "Why is it, when Detroit can produce an engine as fine as they do, that esthetically their taste, design and judgment aren't worth a damn? Why, the new models look like great swollen whales...
...Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...