Word: blobbing
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...Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...
Arthur Greenwood's resignation was long overdue. Attlee is expected to do more firing soon. Pink old Lord Addison, whose white hair looks like the blob of whipped cream on a strawberry sundae, is expected to be dumped from his Commonwealth relations job. A. V. Alexander may be shifted to make way for a more vigorous man in the Defense Ministry...
...aluminum oxide (A12O2). The colors come from small amounts of such elements as chromium or iron. For years, both gems have been manufactured (without the stars) by passing finely powdered A12O2 through the flame of an oxyhydrogen blowpipe. The tiny particles melt and then solidify into a crystalline blob just beyond the flame. Such crystals have all the beauty, color, hardness and other desirable properties of natural gems. When they are well made, their "falsity" can be detected only by an expert who looks (with a microscope) for their slightly curving "growth lines...
Greener Pastures. At the end of the "migrating phase," the slug contracts to a blob, and rises into the air on a long, slender stalk. After this "culmination," the mass breaks up, and about 60% of the cells resume their solitary lives; the rest die. The entire cycle takes about four days. Dr. Bonner believes that the process has some "survival value," perhaps allowing the cells to dodge inimical conditions, or helping them migrate to greener bacterial pastures...
...physiologists and bacteriologists assembled in secret laboratories under the Chemical Warfare Service. With them worked 3,800 Army & Navy men. In gleaming glassware grew the world's most vicious germs. A flask of cloudy liquid or a blob of nutrient jelly might contain the makings of a pandemic...