Word: swollenness
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...places, men of the Third floundered waist-deep through mucilaginous mud. As sault boats as well as Bailey bridges were used to cross swollen streams...
...chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever drops in about two weeks...
...debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
Inspired by this exhibition of running ability and courage, the rest of the Crimson team held together well and finished strong over the last mile, clinching the meet. Although Tuttle's right foot was pretty badly bruised and swollen at the finish, it is believed that he will be able to start working out again...
...soldier had drifted so far from his civilian past that he had often begun to develop different thinking processes. Sometimes he had grown to hate civilians, who could buy almost anything with war-swollen wages, could even go on strike if they chose. He had also tired of battle, become bitterly homesick...