Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...expected Blitzkrieg knockout, Louis shuffled as if his mind was on his Christmas shopping. He landed a few good punches, but for every one he landed, he missed two. When the bell rang for the sixth round, McCoy, for no good reason except that his left eye was swollen shut, remained in his corner...
Delton Conly, according to Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...
...business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines. By 1924 he owned much more than half the swollen Bolivian output, was known in half a dozen capitals as a bon viveur, was called the "richest man in the world...
...fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...
...face swollen and red from an encounter with a belligerent bee, former Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha banged the speaker's stand in the House of Commons as he demanded "imagination and inspiring action" in settling the Irish question. "Hitler's triumph," he shouted, "can be prevented only by a united policy in Ireland. . . . [Germany's] occupation of Ireland would cover our only remaining flank and make the arrival of those supplies from America on which we are counting most hazardous...