Word: thicken
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...rights in the South. Justice Department lawyers are prosecuting 30 voting cases, painstakingly gathering evidence for 70 more. With Justice Department prodding and some healthy foundation grants, four Negro civil rights organizations have joined in a Voter Education Project, administered by the respected Southern Regional Council and designed to thicken registration rolls through mass action...
Subjected to Stress. Deeply inhaled smoke, the researchers found, irritates the cells that line the tiniest chambers of the lung (alveoli). The walls of the alveoli thicken, lose their elasticity and much of their ability to do their vital job of exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen. Subjected to sudden stress-such as a cough or sneeze-the alveolar walls rupture; part of the lung becomes useless...
...Wuhan, where the steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive...
Horses & Crime. The oat still thrives. CBS's Marshal Dillon (James Arness) now has one solid hour to thicken the air with Gunsmoke; and the imitable Paladin, clearly out to impress the FCC's rootin' tootin' Newton Minow, was reading a Dostoevsky novel during an episode of this year's Have Gun, Will Travel...
...Hour Watch. But at the next hearing the aroused West Covinians scored. They arrived in funereal black Cadillacs, carried placards reading "Land of the Free or Home of the Grave?", "Drop Dead Elsewhere," "Happy Sites, Not Sad Rites" and "Don't Let the Plots Thicken...