Word: swollenness
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...fight, his left eye clamped tight, his right slashed, his lips swollen and his body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion...
Halfback Bright, mumbling through swollen lips and a tightly wired jaw, was sure he had been intentionally fouled. It could not have been an accident, said Bright, because "you never hit a fellow illegally three times unless you do it on purpose." This week, while the Missouri Valley Conference authorities met to decide what action, if any, could be taken, the Bright incident pointed up a rash of win-at-any-cost football that seemed to be breaking out all over the country...
...Lieutenants) picks up Vol. Ill of his definitive biography. Like Freeman's first two volumes, it contains more facts about Washington than anyone has ever squeezed between boards before, and more than most readers are likely to digest. Originally planned for six volumes, the work has swollen to eight. Biographer Freeman expects to finish in 1954, ten years after he began...
...crowd was swollen by the presence of many Cornell alumni, who are in town to see their heavily-favored eleven face the Crimson squad this afternoon. Only a few Harvard students were on hand at the rally, and the total number attending the game is estimated...
...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...