Word: swollenness
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...never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...
...afternoon. No Victorian reader of Dickens' works ever wept so copiously over them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished yesterday, for my face was swollen to twice its proper size. . . ." "Between ourselves," he gravely informed another friend, "Paul [Dombey] is dead. He died on Friday night about ten o'clock...
...their pitch-black, hidden tunnels, termites have survived from extreme antiquity. But they have paid a price. None of the colony's members-the blind, scurrying workers, the distorted soldiers, the priapic king and swollen queen-are more than dull automata, the helpless slaves of a strong, though invisible and despotic state...
...Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
...destroyed by mumu (filariasis), a disease which 10,000 U.S. servicemen contracted in the Southwest Pacific. Doctors tried to reassure them, but some victims were convinced that the long, slim worms in their lymph glands would eventually cause elephantiasis (natives of the tropics who have it are grotesquely swollen masses of flesh...