Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound overmuch like what Hemingway had written. In Adapter Glazer's hands, it was less a personal memoir of Spain than a general tale of war. There was more drama in it, but more melodrama. Its sexual passion had been transformed into romantic love, its psychological conflicts swollen into moral crises...
...House, as it began work on President Roosevelt's estimate of income and outgo for the next fiscal year, was the President's recommendation that $460,000,000 be raised in new taxes. Last week, as a result, the Appropriations Committee applied a freezing-cold poultice to swollen estimates...