Word: clumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the kind of stuff women listeners demand." Whenever she tried making Portia "more rounded," a sliding Hooperating and a cascade of angry letters sent her scurrying back to the shelter of the nearest clump of clich...
...children raced each other across the lot-little Kathy Fiscus, 3, her sister Barbara, 9, and her cousin Gus Lyon, 5. Kathy fell behind. When the children looked back for her, she had vanished. Gus heard faint screams. Following the sound, he came to an open hole in a clump of weeds. The hole was only 14 inches across, and the pipe that lined it was rusted and corroded. Kathy had fallen into an abandoned and forgotten water well...
...Lenten calm settled over Central America. At Costa Rican Junta President José Figueres' finca, which had recently rung with the none-too-rhythmic clump of marching Caribbean Legionnaires, silent peons spread coffee beans on the patio to dry in the warm tropical sun. The Legion was dead. It had been done in by the guile of its old enemy, Nicaragua's "Tacho" Somoza-and by the no-nonsense order of the Organization of American States (TIME, Jan. 3). The end had come before the Legion could fire a shot at Tacho or its other prime target, Dominican...
...results may be "utterly devastating." The body's smallest blood vessels are barely wide enough to let a single red cell squeeze through. When red cells clump, they plug these bottlenecks and deprive tissues of food and oxygen. The tissue cells die. When sludged blood kills important tissues, the patient dies...
...Dictyostelium discoideum is no ordinary amoeba; its cells have hidden capabilities. Thousands of them will be grazing peacefully, paying no attention to one another. Then a few will drift together, forming a little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...