Word: swollenness
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...Clinically the most conspicuous feature was the widespread edema which first appeared on the [tops] of the feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...
...boom seemed to be based on the fact that U.S. railroads, in general, have sensibly used a large chunk of swollen wartime profits to buy up their bonds and slash their fixed charges. Many are in the best financial shape of their lives. Traditionally, when these bonds move up toward par, stocks eventually follow. Example: Louisville & Nashville 53 (2003), above par at 107, have fluctuated only one and a half points in a year; the road's stock has soared 20 points...
...certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...
...thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...
...February 1897, an expedition under Colonel Moreira Cesar set out with 1,300 men, 15,000,000 cartridges, 70 rounds of cannon shot. Moreira Cesar was tough, relentless, an epileptic. The objective was Canudos, a mountain village of 5,200 huts and two churches whose population had been swollen by crowds of Conselheiro's followers. It was 60 miles away over mountain roads that had defeated the earlier expeditions before they started out. Conselheiro's followers, the jagunços, had dug trenches, spied out the land, sharpened scythes and cattle prongs, repaired their antique muskets, even built...