Word: swollen
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Swollen Cities...
...William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...
...what to eat and drink? Perhaps the best known--and best behaved--is the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
...Silence. The house chills down in an hour or two. Water in the pipes jells up and starts to freeze. The radiator in the downstairs bedroom cracks. A case of Diet Cokes in the kitchen bloats to solid ice, each can swollen to bursting, like the Incredible Hulk. Now the water pipes give way. We step outside for firewood to stoke the wood stove, and we gasp: Our breath emerges in jagged-crystal puffs under a cold headlight moon...