Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups of people, who, at 1 a.m., are already dodging police blockades to sift through the ashes and weep. A nighttime wanderer seeks out Skyline Drive -- once a noble address -- and finds a row of unconnected stone chimneys, naked and alone as tombstones and lit by the bluish flames of broken gas mains...
...examination of his body revealed no sign of disease and no wounds beyond those that were inflicted during his exhumation. But scientists are still pondering the reason for the bluish tinge of his teeth, which were well worn, probably from a diet of milled grain products...
...Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that a thick, bluish mucus had started to accumulate in her airways. "She already had some permanent scarring to the lungs," recalls Dr. Bonnie Ramsey, Brianna's physician and an expert in lung disease. "She was a very sick little girl...
Aboard a U.S. attack submarine, a technician suddenly clamps on his headphones as bluish-white symbols dance on the cathode-ray screens before him. He is picking up an eerie metallic message: the echoes of a Soviet submarine nosing through the black depths of the Atlantic 40 miles away. A BC- 10 computer "washes" data through its analyzers and, amazingly, tells the technician not only the type of sub he is hearing but the specific vessel...