Word: swollenness
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...that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years' time you'll be an old gentleman too, and if your belly keeps pace with your swollen head you'll have a bigger one than...
...mines, there was terrible destruction. The waters of the Eder, released by the breaching of the Eder Dam, had swept the valley bare, flooding the airfield at Fritzlar, sweeping through farms and villages beyond the industrial town of Kassel, which was partly inundated (see map). The Ruhr, swollen as if by a tidal wave from the blasting of the Möhne and the Sorpe dams, had flooded town after town...
...would also be ousted. "Economy," explained the Board. The teachers brought suit, charged that the firings were-part of a scheme to give jobs to favorites, collect kickbacks on salaries. The Board, they declared, might better economize by calling off useless work invented for a maintenance force which had swollen...
...airman's form of trench foot was reported last week in the Washington Star: flyers may develop swollen, whitish hands or faces which take months to get well if they whip off masks or gloves for a few moments to make fine adjustments at high altitudes. The accident happens so often that many U.S. doctors in England have made it their chief research...
Misplaced good intentions may result in irreparable damage. The crew of an "internationally known ship" sunk in European waters were rescued by fishermen. The sympathetic rescuers massaged swollen feet briskly (breaking the weakened, almost-dead skin) and applied hot-water bottles (causing excruciating pain). Almost all the survivors had to have their feet amputated...