Word: congealing
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...zigzag ditch about 25 feet long there were 56 Jap bodies. They were stacked four deep at some points. Many were laid open by the shell blasts and the blood of most of them had not yet started to congeal...
...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities of world union...
...Stars. In great interstellar clouds of dust, new planets and stars are now being formed (Fred L. Whipple of Harvard). In the Milky Way system, in which Earth is one of the most inconsiderable planets, star dust and gas contain as much matter as all the known stars. To congeal into stars, these 1/250,000-inch dust particles would require more billions of years than the calculated age of the universe-were it not that gravitation and the pressure of light whirl the dust in cur rents and thus speed up its condensation so immeasurably that Whipple "expects to witness...
...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...