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In Asia, the flu has made an early comeback, and quickly swelled to epidemic proportions in Japan and Taiwan.

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Her five-year-old son, Billy Wray, had six large bites on his right leg, which became "incredibly swollen" and caused him to feel sick.

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When goons broke up an independent labor rally, he reports, a naval intelligence officer enthused to the gangster boss Meyer Lansky, “Gee, you did a swell job.”

The volume of oil at sea swelled by about 3.4 million barrels a day in September, the greatest increase since the pandemic, according to the International Energy Agency.

But a few universities used the occasion to push back against the idea that schools’ coffers were swollen or that they weren’t focused on affordability or work critical to the U.S.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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