Word: clumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jester. It is full of sharp turns and wide, easy slopes. It was snowing, so visibility was extremely limited. A trio of skiers whizzed by me, only to disappear from view at the next turn. When I got there I found the three of them hung up in a clump of trees beyond a turn, which they said they thought was a jump. Miraculously, none was hurt, save for a few bruised ribs...
...because he's unfriendly," an underling assured them. "It's because we've already put chemicals on the field, and nobody's allowed out there. If you spread the stuff around with your shoes, it could clump up and kill the grass where we don't want it to." The laborer looked up at the centerfield clock--which runs all winter--polished off his soft drink, and excused himself; his break was over...
...started out his pacesetting 18 by birdying the 292-yard first hole after fading his drive into a clump of pines. He proceeded to play a choked down punch shot to within ten feet of the flagstick and nailed the putt for his three...
...people endure in extremis, whether on Andean mountaintops or in concentration camps, is a popular theme in an overpopulated age preoccupied with lifeboat survival theory. But West's characters clump about mouthing lines like, "We have all stepped back in time," or pondering jejune perceptions. Sample...
...viruses would indicate their presence by killing the living cells and by killing or infecting the mice. They would reveal their existence in the chicks indirectly. Fluid from the infected chick eggs was mixed with samples of normal animal blood to see if the embryonic cells would agglutinate, or "clump" together; if they did, it would mean that a virus was present...