Word: swollenness
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...house and car were buried. Says he: "I'd be dead if I'd been at home. There was nothing left, just emptiness and a wall of mud." Around seaside Point Reyes (pop. 700), farmers shot their cattle as the animals drifted helpless and flailing down flood-swollen creeks...
...side. He was eight at the time, a member of one of the mobile work teams of children instituted by Pol Pot for their ''education and well-being." The night before his mother died he was taken to her in a nearby village. He noticed how swollen she was, how frail and tired, and that she was breathing with great difficulty. Kim Seng's mother took his hand and told him that he would very soon be an orphan. Then she said: "Always remember your father's and mother's blood. It is calling...
Thus the people survive, indeed flourish, in spite of a vast gap between them and their ineffective governments. They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...
...unlike previous years, all it cost him was two swollen ankles...
...door of the interrogation room burst open and a group of men circled me, then charged. Each man in turn would direct a karate kick or chop at me, sending me staggering to another of the torturers. My lips cracked, my nose bled and my cheeks were so swollen I could not see. When I could not stand on my feet any more, one guard would pick me up and another would kick or punch me. They laughed each time I hit the floor. I passed out a few times. They would bring me back to consciousness by splashing...