Word: swollenness
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...Goes Egypt? The ancient land of the Pharaohs last week lay drowsily under the parching sun, the Nile Delta a green lifeline beset by the hot brown desert. The river, swollen with the muddy waters from the Sudan and the Ethiopian mountains, as always carried life and hope; as they had for centuries, pregnant peasant women ate mud from its fertile banks, believing that it would make their unborn children strong. Yet even the Nile could not accomplish that miracle. In Egypt, two out of four children die before they are five years old, and the survivors are almost certain...
...stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...
...Murph!" and the crowd was on its feet, roaring for the early kill. But Maxim bounced right back, set about giving Challenger Murphy a thorough lesson in the art of boxing. He began stinging Murphy with neat jabs, by the third round had Irish Bob's right eye swollen to a mere slit. When Murphy tried to close with the champion, Maxim tied him up completely; whenever they separated, Maxim's fists kept drumming on Murphy's cast-iron jaw. In the final rounds, Maxim had hit his opponent so often, if not so hard, that...
Professor Hobart A. Reimann of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College coined the name to cover a group of mysterious ailments which have been cropping up in medical records for almost 150 years. .Victims may get fever (up to 104°), abdominal pains, swollen joints, purple spots and patches, swelling or hives. More men than women are afflicted...
That was the last the law saw of Matt Jones. One night last week, railroad workmen near Lexington, Mo., 50 miles east of Kansas City, found Matt's body bobbing on the swollen Missouri River, a 9-lb. tire chain wrapped tightly around his ankles and threaded through a 45-lb. concrete building block. Al Osborne's lawyer, on hearing the news, averred that Jones's death was "detrimental to my client." But the county prosecutor didn't seem to think so. Without Matt's testimony, the three remaining charges against Al Osborne would probably...