Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victims of Khaalis did not feel quite so well as they emerged from the B'nai B'rith Building with cuts, bruises, shattered glasses and swollen eyes. They were greeted by the pealing of bells in a nearby church where many of their relatives had kept vigil. For these hostages, the ordeal had ended...
...that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles and Extremities." There he finds a listing for swollen leg. It tells him that the problem may be, among other things, phlebitis, a painful swelling often characterized by whitened skin and a prominent vein...
Carter's projected $57.4 billion deficit is an improvement over the $68 billion in red ink anticipated for fiscal 1977, which ends on Sept. 30. The current deficit has been swollen, however, by the $11.4 billion in tax rebates that is expected to be pumped into the economy as part of the stimulus package. The business community, some economists and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns question whether such a stimulus is still needed now that the economy seems to be recovering satisfactorily. They warn that its impact may be inflationary. But Congress moved briskly ahead with the plan last...
...Swollen Joints. Conducted by a team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoff of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, the study examined a total of 1,029 people, 638 of whom were randomly selected from both quarantined and unquarantined farms or had eaten food produced on them. The remainder were employees of the company that manufactured the fire retardant and others referred by doctors or checked at their own request. Among the randomly selected group, 37% had such neurological symptoms as loss of memory, muscular weakness, coordination problems and headaches; 27% suffered from painful or swollen joints...
...racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...