Word: swollenness
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Dorothy Pilluck licked "a cake of soap until her mouth and lips were swollen...
...Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey...
...fact that the Master of Adams House is sporting a cane and favoring a swollen ankle should evoke no surprise if one considers the rigors of a Ping Pong tournament. Technical parlance for the damaging manoeuvre is said to be "Reaching for a wide one." There is no substance to the rumor that Professor Baxter stubbed his toe on a copy of the "Ironclad Battleship...
...Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
Since last spring heavy rains have swollen the two rivers that writhe clear across China: deep Yangtze and wide, slow Hwang Ho or Yellow River which 81 years ago shifted its entire course from the south to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Government experts last month warned China's millions that "almost inevitably" the Hwang Ho would writhe out of its new retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped...