Word: swollenness
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...deal with the children of some 2,500 Hmong tribesmen who settled there after fleeing the mountains of northern Laos. In Los Angeles an estimated two-thirds of the city's roofers are illegal aliens. In New York City, the population of refugees from El Salvador has swollen from 2,000 to 20,000 in less than three months, and the numbers are still growing...
Hundreds of thousands of peasants live in hovels made of packed mud: naked children with swollen bellies and open sores wander among the grunting pigs, garbage and flies...
...Saturday everything came together, and the Crimson touch was magic. Bain, Lemmon and Brad Desaulniers, in "A" division, beat their opponents to advance to the semi-finals. Chip Robie, playing on a swollen ankle, and Charlie Duffy both dropped close four-game matches and entered consolations. The Crimson stood within a point of Princeton, going into Saturday afternoon's semi-finals...
Reagan believes profoundly that a swollen Government has now become the destroyer of prosperity, fanning inflation through endless deficits and strangling economic growth through excessive taxes. So, from now on, Government must choose to slim itself down. It must spend less, tax less, regulate less, trim rather than expand social programs and turn over responsibility for many of them to states and cities. Above all, it must stop trying to guide the economy and trust the energies of private workers and businessmen to pull the nation out of the stagflation swamp...
...conducted mostly in sporadic, hit-and-run raids by both sides, is focused on the northern area of Ovamboland. This flat bush country near the Angolan border offers SWAPO good cover and a minimum of geographical obstacles. In other sectors, the current rainy season and swollen rivers have slowed down both sides. The rains wash away SWAPO supply routes. At a camp in the Caprivi Strip, one South African company commander complained: "I've got a patrol out there that is cut off by three rivers that flooded last night. I'm going to have to extract them...