Word: congeal
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...lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think, "Oh, my God, this bacon could congeal my arteries at any second, and have these people taken...
...lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think, "Oh, my God, this bacon could congeal my arteries at any second, and have these people taken...
However, this play is not a simple threeway tug of war. At the end of each scene, the lights flash up for a moment over the frozen actors. As each character's features congeal into an expression of immobility they betray a deeper trouble beneath their loveloss. There we see how terrible it is that Lloyd's jealousy is toppled over the edge by a carefully sounded out description of a hermit crab. We see one hundred and fifty-four dollars changing melodrama into tragedy...
...wasn't race, however, that caused Baltimore's schools to congeal but rather the ingrown nature of bureaucracy. Race, in a city that remains deeply if informally segregated, merely intensified the us-against-them outlook of school administrators. Many outside observers say the school aristocracy came to view the black underclass as beyond help. David Rostetter, now a court-appointed overseer of schools in Chester, Pa., once studied Baltimore's school system at the request of the city's federal court. "What you have," he says, "is a black middle class being created on the backs of their own failure...
...something to work with -- some chunks of space in which the atoms were closer together, a region of greater than average density, so that they could draw surrounding matter in. The excess densities need not have been very large, but they had to be there if matter was to congeal. And if they were present, they should be visible to a sensitive enough probe in the form of warm and cool spots mottling the microwave background...