Word: swollenness
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...require hospitalization. Thin as a sheet of paper, the epidermis consists of about five layers of cells. The cells in the deepest layers constantly reproduce, pushing older layers to the surface, where they slough off after two weeks or so. Thus while first-degree burns appear red and swollen and are painful to the touch, they usually heal on their...
...Crimson's top scorer injured his right thumb in the game against the Minutemen. Although he attempted to play on Saturday night against Boston College. Zimmerman lasted only a few minutes as his thumb was severly swollen. He is expected to undergo tests today, but currently his status remains...
What is known, though, is that the group is especially concerned about the potential for outflows from mutual funds, which have become swollen with individual's deposits this decade. One of the group's first courses of action during a crash would be to call fund companies to monitor activity. Another virtual given is that the Fed would cut interest rates, as it did in 1987, putting enough money into the economy to ease bottlenecks. That single act--cutting rates--is widely viewed as having greatly limited the carnage...
Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...
...swollen, discolored result means that the chairman is hard-pressed to fight departmental budget wars with dignity. He has an unsatisfactory negotiation with the campus executive officer, a lizard whose "carefully calculated sincerity is almost indistinguishable from the real thing." This fellow, of course, is bent on downsizing what once was called the liberal arts. Devereaux rebels, and with TV cameras churning (dignitaries are cutting the ribbon for a grand new engineering complex), he grabs a goose from the campus pond and threatens to kill it and another like it every day until the English department gets its funding...