Word: swollenness
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...swollen like decomposing flesh...
...Benassi of Sassuolo, Italy. In 1923, when she was eleven, she suffered acute peritonitis, and by the time a doctor was called he judged her beyond help. A nun at Eva's school, however, organized prayers to Neumann for healing and touched the girl's swollen abdomen with a picture of the bishop. That night the disease disappeared...
...upgrade their research staffs; it would sharpen the body's procedures; and it would provide a more effective check on the executive's power by creating a more efficient, more disciplined legislature. Besides, the Massachusetts house, with one representative for every 24,204 people, was more swollen than any other state legislature except New Hampshire's, with one for every 2,055. California, with a population almost five times as large as Massachusetts', has an assembly of only 80 members...
...answer is that they cannot find jobs, at least jobs they want to stay in and grow in. The problem has swollen to pandemic proportions since Lyricist Lee Adams wrote Kids for the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. Massive youth unemployment-and the threat of social and political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit...
Actually, the strategy that brought the revival was not all Schmücker's. What ailed Volkswagen two years ago was obvious enough: the work force was swollen, consumers around the world had grown tired of the company's ubiquitous Beetle, the rising value of the German mark had pushed up dollar prices of the company's cars enough to slash sales in the all-important U.S. market (they fell by about a third in 1974-75). The remedies were equally clear: cut the labor force, bring out new models, build a plant...