Word: swollenness
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March of the Half-Dead. Some of the prisoners ran on bare, swollen feet out through the main gate toward the hill which the raiders pointed out to them. Some of them in hysteria tried to embrace and kiss their rescuers. Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers...
...cellars not used as forts, Budapest's civilians huddled, their normal numbers of 1,000,000 swollen to perhaps 2,000,000 by refugees who had fled the war-ravaged countryside expecting to find safety in the city. They were dying by hundreds...
...looking back over this record at year's end, Ottawa bigwigs were, as usual, issuing hopeful statements. But Canadians knew that, more than for most countries, this war-swollen trade was the biggest question mark in Canada's future. The Dominion's 12,000,000 people could never consume all that her fisheries, farms and machines could produce...
...weeks Paris weather had been like London-rain nearly every day. The Marne, the Oise and the Seine had risen until André stood hip-deep in water. To watching Parisians it seemed that this time André was doomed to drown in the swollen Seine. Quayside storage spaces, where the precious household goods of bombed-out Parisians were kept, were flooded. The muddy waters spread over suburban areas. Worst of all, there was no longer sufficient space under the bridges for the barges to pass with their precious coal cargoes for Parisians, who felt just as frozen as Andr...
Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...