Word: swollenness
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Even so, there seemed to be no motion anywhere. There was a lifeless quiet, and it felt cold even though the sun was shining. It was impossible to escape from death and misery. Little children with haunted, running, swollen eyes told of scampering through the night, with no particular destination, knowing only that the gas was among them and would kill. They asked the soldiers where they could find their parents. The soldiers replied, "Wait here. A truck will be along and take you to the hospital. Everyone will be there. You will find Mummy and Daddy." The frightened children...
...artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time the sequence had been reshot 15 times, however, the repeated falls had left her with a swollen ankle and hip. The scene ended with a soldier stealing a loaf of bread from Nelligan, who found herself nearly as worn out as her character might have been. "I was so bruised that every part of me hurt," says she. "They could have taken whatever they liked...
...national contest that follows the conventions is fouled by two intertwined circumstances swollen to intolerable: money power and television power. The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Money buys television time, buys Election Day "expenses," buys access to decision makers. Most major candidates now control personal political action committees that let them mobilize allies long before an election. Important Congressmen accumulate similar slush funds. Independent PACs bring the most brutal pressure on individual Congressmen...
...been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near by, Purani Kaur, 60, leaned against a wall in the dusty school courtyard, her eyelids almost swollen shut. "They came to my house with swords and bricks," she said as friends reached out to steady her. "All my five sons and my son-in-law were killed." In a dark corner of a corridor, Amrit Kaur sat with her head swathed in a blood-soaked bandage...
...everyone infected by the virus will develop AIDS. "There is clearly a spectrum of outcomes," says Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. While some individuals will develop the full-blown syndrome, others will simply manifest the flulike symptoms of AIDS-related complex (ARC), a condition marked by swollen glands, weight loss and weakness. While no patient has been known to recover from AIDS, there is new evidence, according to Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of Cornell Medical College, that some ARC patients do get better...