Word: congeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared Nazis with more exuberance than exactitude, was "the head of the first Jew ever decapitated in German history." Otherwise insignificant, Jew Solly Epstein...
Professor Bancroft's thesis is that the thread-like nerve ends clot when exhausted by wakefulness or worry or poisoned by sedatives, hypnotics, narcotics, anesthetics or alcohol. He has indeed seen through microscopes drugged nerve ends turn dull, cloud and congeal like poached eggs. His contention is that sodium rhodanate dissolves the clots at the nerve ends, restores them to their natural consistency...