Word: swollenness
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After six straight days on the stand, George Marshall's 70-year-old frame sagged a bit and his voice was fading. "He sounds just like I feel after I have been talking for four or five hours at a stretch," said Fulbright. The hearing record had already swollen to about 401,000 words. And there were still weeks...
...bureau, "has naturally been strongest in those areas where prospects of higher farm income in 1951 and later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support programs, most farmers reckon that the price of their land will go up a lot more...
...Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...
Along with simple explanations, Truman prescribes simple drawings. A swollen, inflamed appendix is easy to sketch on a prescription pad, and so is the operation of cutting it off. "Perhaps," says Truman (no Vesalius), "the less artistic you are the better you can illustrate for the patient...
Owner Goetz kept hoping the vets could save Your Host, even though the injury was almost impossible to treat. But the chestnut colt, hobbling painfully about his stall on three legs (his right foreleg swollen and foreshortened), grew steadily worse. Last week, after the veterinarians agreed that there was nothing more to be done, Your Host was condemned...