Word: swollenness
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...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
...worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them. It was going to be an anxious three weeks until the worst U. S. flood rolled out into the Gulf and history...
...Haverhill, Ohio, betting that he could swim 100 ft. in the swollen Ohio River, Everett Conley, 32, plunged in with his clothes on, drowned after...
...like an orange going down an ostrich's neck. Fortnight ago it was up at Wheeling, Portsmouth, Cincinnati. Last week it moved slowly down through Louisville and Evansville to Cairo. But the Ohio River, unlike an ostrich's neck, remained swollen after the orange had passed, for floods recede slowly...
Near Huntingdon. Clyde Davis, 35, fell out of an ambulance and drowned in the Obion River while taking his father to a hospital. Earl Kilgore. 35, was drowned when his car unset in a swollen creek. A drowned Negro was found in a Clarksville ditch. From Arkansas South-The Ohio basin's flood waters would not take full effect until this week...