Word: swollenness
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Women students, possibly suffering from the delusion that dates are required for attendance at the Friday evening dances in the Union, failed to appear in large enough numbers to satisfy last week's swollen stag line...
...Washington press corps to let it be said-with much justice-that Washington is the best covered city in the world. The shortcomings in coverage are not always the fault of reporters; they are due to the size of the job. In two decades the Federal Government has swollen like an explosion. And there just aren't enough reporters around to do a thorough...
...what worried the two economizers more was the swollen Government payroll, which has grown at the rate of 1,448 civilians a day since the start of the Korean war. Ferguson offered an amendment cutting FSA-Labor payrolls a flat 10%, warned that he would try to make the same cut in all Government departments. The debate became sharper. New York's Herbert Lehman, a man who is always pleading to save something, pleaded to spare the payrolls of such public health activities as heart disease and cancer research. West Virginia's Matthew Neely gibed that Douglas...
...Added to the 90,000 estimated for the first phase, this made a total of a quartermillion. U.N. soldiers found a grisly new way to occupy their time, when they were not fighting: counting the enemy dead whose bodies drifted past them in Korea's muddy, rain-swollen streams. At one point on the east-central front, one G.I. counted 80 in a single...
Gavilan's margin was decisive. But Bratton's performance looked a lot more impressive after it turned out that he had fought the last eleven rounds under a double handicap: a broken right hand and a broken jaw. In his dressing room, Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...