Word: congealment
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...truly unified Eurocurrency-or "Euro" as moneymen call it -is still far away. Treasury Secretary John Connally, for one, is not overeager to see that day arrive. With a single currency, he fears, Europe may congeal into a unified economic bloc competing against the U.S., and the Europeans may let their currency float downward against the dollar whenever they want an added trade advantage against the U.S. At present, national rivalries prevent such truly coordinated action...
...ground, they congeal into patterns of dense urban settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between the Garden State Parkway...
...sense of stature seems to deepen Humphrey, make him more untouchables. Always deserving of our applause, now he seems to demand our respect. And if his new awareness does not congeal into Websterian pomposity, we may have a national figure who will lead not only with his mind but with his manner...
...hostile to reason. The pure rationalist, he insisted, is no more fit to comment on life than the eunuch is fit to judge a beauty contest. In Tragic Sense of Life he wrote, "The mind seeks what is dead, for what is living escapes it; it seeks to congeal the flowing stream in blocks of ice. In order to understand anything, it is necessary to kill...
...oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles, a 700-lb. pig snuffles outside the chancellor's window, new dormitories will house a comfortable 40 to 60 students, and the human-scale motto is "divide and congeal...