Word: swollenness
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...business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines. By 1924 he owned much more than half the swollen Bolivian output, was known in half a dozen capitals as a bon viveur, was called the "richest man in the world...
...fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...
...face swollen and red from an encounter with a belligerent bee, former Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha banged the speaker's stand in the House of Commons as he demanded "imagination and inspiring action" in settling the Irish question. "Hitler's triumph," he shouted, "can be prevented only by a united policy in Ireland. . . . [Germany's] occupation of Ireland would cover our only remaining flank and make the arrival of those supplies from America on which we are counting most hazardous...
Almost 50 years ago, in a tiny hill town of Ohio's Belmont County, young Dr. Frederick Archimedes Korell was confronted with a medical puzzler: a strange new children's disease. Its symptoms: swollen glands, high fever, sore throat, coughing, abdominal pains. He was fresh from medical school and he had never heard of the disease. He treated the symptoms separately, and the children all recovered...
...frumpish German princess with healthy bad manners, Caroline was at first misinformed into expecting a happy marriage with a handsome prince. Met at Gravesend by George's most politely poisonous mistress, she took it on the chin from then on. At first sight of his betrothed, the swollen Prince retired to a far corner and asked for brandy. Their subsequent battles stirred up almost as much fuss in England as the contemporary Napoleonic Wars...