Word: thickener
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...earlier in the day, the plot had begun to thicken. Ellsberg--who joined the picket lines that night--had decided his talk to the Niemans was serving to "legitimize" Colby...
...usual, the plot begins to thicken no later than the top of page 2. Bertie Wooster has just escaped from the clutching hands of Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn's daughter, and is reflecting on the joys of freedom. "I've seldom had a sharper attack of euphoria," he tells Jeeves over the eggs and bacon. "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B. Mind you, I don't know how long it will last. Too often it is when one feels fizziest that the storm clouds begin doing their stuff...
Scientists have no lack of chores for a machine with the capabilities of the Bevatron. Biophysicists, for example, are optimistic about using heavy ions, or other particles that can be made from these ions, to combat cancer, acromegaly (a rare disease in which facial features, hands and feet thicken) and Parkinson's disease. Unlike X rays and gamma rays, heavy particles do not damage healthy tissue on their way to a tumor; they do most of their deadly work only after reaching it. (Before the modification of the Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate...
...midwest, Chicago, via the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Winding through the empty stretches of wooded farmlands, the train boomed into the quiet and respectable north shore suburbs of Forest Hills, Glencoe, Northbrook, Wilmette and Evanston and as the density of houses and street corner drugstores began to thicken, my father would lean over and say, "Get your ticket ready. We'll be coming to Chicago any minute...
...euphemisms, or at least camouflage them in obfuscating language. Many companies have been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...