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Word: blackish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great martial powers of modern times: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, Japan, China and Israel. The age of America's expansion in the 19th century was marked by the low-tech coffeepot that was left on the fire until the brew inside had thickened into a blackish acid just right for tanning buffalo hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...investigators let their man go too hastily? The gendarmes' technical report, a copy of which has been obtained by TIME, declares that "the initial coat is compatible with the white traces visible on the Mercedes" and that the plastic bumper had a "composition compatible with the transparent, blackish traces visible on the Mercedes." The report said the left rear light did not appear to have been damaged (the mystery Fiat had left taillight fragments on the road), but that the body of the car had been repaired at the precise spot where the Mercedes would have clipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery In The Details | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...assigned a number and then locked away like a rare book. Each brain is photographed, weighed and sliced into sections. From these sections researchers remove the barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer's. While such blemishes may show up in virtually any area of the brain, they are usually densest in the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped region that is critical to memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIFT OF LOVE | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Vegemite: Australia, puckered face, blackish-greenish slime in ponds you can scoop...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Profile : Hayden F. Hirschfield '98 | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...lawyers also never raised the issue of the blackish-red soil found on Wanda's hands and extending up the sleeves of her sweater, or of her broken fingernails, which were caked with soil. Such details suggest a struggle that might have taken place outdoors. Coleman had no scratches on him; neither did any of the other people questioned immediately after the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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