Word: swollenness
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...addition to floods, mudslides and other natural havoc, this year's wet weather has had some less publicized if irritating consequences. Their ranks swollen by record springtime rains, mosquitoes are attacking in force in many parts of the country, feasting on their human prey with buzzing fury. To Gary Benzon, mosquito-control superintendent for Plymouth County, Mass., south of Boston, there is no doubt that this will be a bumper summer for the pesky insects. "In an average year we get about a thousand calls about mosquito problems between May and September. This year we have already got close...
...Hitler suffered from a progressive and intermittently acute palsy of both hands, and after 1943 was observed writing only in pencil, not ink as in the diaries. Moreover, he was injured in a July 20, 1944, bombing attempt on his life, and both of his forearms were swollen and swathed in bandages or compresses; yet the diaries include an entry apparently written that day. Historian Irving, in his new translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from...
...went for the wild, wet West. Barely recuperated from winter storms that pounded Pacific Coast piers and unloaded record snows by the driftful, the region has been drowning in one of the wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property...
Trop moved out of his house and into a dilapidated apartment. "I was chasing the memory of the high," he says. "The highs got lower, and the lows got deeper." His skin was covered with sores from malnutrition. The free-basing also caused rashes and made his tongue so swollen that he could barely talk. In one of the fits of rage that accompanied the "down" periods, he snapped off two teeth. Shards of broken glass pipes formed a thigh-high pile. The apartment was rancid, filled with unwashed clothes and dishes. The doctor did not notice. He spent most...
...neat he put hospital corners on the newspaper he lined the hamster cage with," is a mutual misunderstanding. The second, to Columnist Mark Feldman, is even more calamitous. As Rachel acknowledges, "The man is capable of having sex with a Venetian blind." Even so, she is astonished when, swollen with her second pregnancy, she learns that Mark has been sleeping with Washington Hostess Thelma Rice. "The most unfair thing about this whole business," she begins, "is that I can't even date." Later the saline level rises. When Mark contritely bursts into tears, Rachel concludes, "It's true...