Word: swollenness
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...year, Detroit expected that its worker population would be swollen to 600,000, nearly double normal times. The area around Ford's vast Willow Run plant, which will take 100,000 workers, was already overtaxed...
...Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the plague got its name, the hugely swollen lymph glands of the groin and armpits. Careful laboratory tests confirmed the autopsy findings...
...colder at night. Several men tried to jump overboard, but we kept them inside. When they died we had to throw the bodies overboard. Sharks came close, waiting. We shouted, we made noises, we did whatever we could to scare them off. The men's lips were swollen and cracked, and once when it rained we tried to catch a few drops of rain on the tongue." Total hours...
...California, the State Department of Public Health, and the Rockefeller Foundation are working on the disease, no one yet knows what it is. It has been seen in Austria, India, Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
...Torrential rains, merciless bombing, malaria, red tape, British blockade, and technical ignorance have cursed the life of its officials. All these things Newsman Stowe airily brushed aside to come down like a Yunnanese landslide on one single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon; 4) use of the Road's limited capacity to haul luxuries, to be bootlegged at fantastic prices...