Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
...ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
...matter from its heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...
...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...
...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...