Word: swollenness
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...Swollen Waters. The change had no more effect on racing conditions. The night before the race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...
...Hollywood's Ciro's nightclub. This time Welterweight (138 Ibs.) Mortimer was beaten by an unidentified thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
...fall of 1947, veterans had swollen University enrollment to an all-time high, had overflowed from the Houses to converted barracks at Fort Devens, and had bred 2500 babies. This baby boom worried the Hygiene Department and Cambridge pediatricians: how were student fathers, supported only by G.I. subsistence, to pay for the medical care which their children needed? The Harvard Pediatric Study has provided that care since October, 1947--free medical treatment for children of student fathers, veteran and non-veteran alike. Financed by research funds from the United States Public Health Service and the Children's Bureau, the Study...
Hardly less striking than the short-term benefits of ACTH are its side effects. Many patients develop a severe acne, mental symptoms, a moon-shaped, swollen face, "buffalo hump," diabetes or hirsutism, i.e., a woman may grow a mustache and beard, but, along with other ill effects, they usually disappear after treatment is stopped...