Word: globs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the light changed we had taken more than a dozen direct hits, and everyone on board was cringing away from the windows. The old lady peered nervously at the glob of wet snow still sticking to the outside of her own window and clutched her groceries to her breast. She had been lucky this time. The window had saved...
...Reporter-Researcher Adrianne Jucius, who researched the story. Jucius first studied the intricacies of DNA as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, feeling the excitement of a scientist at work on the "fundamental substance of life" as she stirred a beakerful of solution, slowly accumulating a luminous glob of DNA strands on the end of her glass rod. "It was a very simple lab procedure," says Jucius, "but it was one of the most exhilarating moments in my life...
...TAKE A LOOK at the picture of this subject," Flanagan told the jury in his closing arguments. "Is this just a specimen? Are you speaking about a blob, a big glob of mucus?" The crux of his summation was that the fetus Edelin killed had been an independent human begin with "the right to live in society" under the protection of its law. Flanagan told the jurors that the only difference between the fetus and "normal human beings" were it weight and its cause of death...
...carried in a gaily decorated white cake while singing a squeaky version of Happy Birthday. When he got some icing on his hands, he dutifully followed the directions called out by his wife: "Lick your fingers, Dick." He even got his Irish setter, King Timahoe, to lick off a glob of frosting that had polluted his maroon sports jacket. Pointing at the sullen skies outside, he joked to his aides: "Take the rest of the day off. Go out and enjoy the sun, the swimming...
...menacing form depicted in this dramatic photograph is not some giant glob of man-eating protoplasm from a science-fiction film. It is actually a hamster's kidney cell magnified 15,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Such scientific snapshots taken by Caltech Biologist Jean-Paul Revel may offer an important clue to a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: how a living cell moves across a surface. The cell's perambulations, Revel says, are apparently made possible by a strange phenomenon called "ruffling...