Word: swollenness
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Because the river will not wait, National Guardsmen, prisoners and volunteers spent Memorial Day stacking sandbags against the swollen Illinois and Missouri rivers. The Illinois is not expected to crest until June 1. But while water levels in many areas may reach higher than during the disastrous floods of 1993, the actual property damage totals may be considerably less than the $12 billion in losses the region suffered two years ago. Reason: fewer people now live in the most vulnerable parts of the flood plains. Thousands of home owners have relocated to higher ground in the past two years, thanks...
DIED. FARLEY, 16, faithful and beloved dog of the Patterson family; of a heart attack triggered by his heroic but strenuous rescue of the family's youngest child, April, from a rain-swollen river; somewhere in Canada...
...champ, whose puns were equally feeble. An early Nauman like From Hand to Mouth, 1967 (a wax cast of the artist's arm, shoulder and throat) is a retread of Duchamp's 1959 With My Tongue in My Cheek, a cast of the old dandy's cheek delicately swollen by the pressure of his tongue inside...
...Senate, where a resolution calling for full diplomatic ties will be introduced soon. The resolution is popular for reasons that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created an East Asian power vacuum in which Vietnam could play a key role. Swollen by an astonishing economic boom of its own, China appears eager to muscle into that vacuum. Its recent moves to garrison disputed islands in the South China Sea have even led to arguments by top Vietnamese officials that the U.S. uphold the regional balance of power by bringing Vietnam back into...
...thriving," says Henderson, who enjoys nothing so much as bicycling to the post office in his small town. Club membership has swollen to 600 over the past two years, and Henderson, who is also president of the high-toned Pushcart Press, is putting out a book this fall filled with letters from unplugged Leaddites around the world. "These are cries from the heart about what electronics has done to people," he says. Most of the letters were written, by hand, with a trusty...