Word: clue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move proved sound. After ruling out food and person-to-person transmission of the infection, the CDC men learned that all of the patients had received platelets-blood components that help promote clotting-from the same donor. Following up that clue, they found that the man unknowingly had chronic, asymptomatic osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone that was the cause of the cancer patients' new illness. The CDC'S discovery helped the cancer victims and may have saved others as well. The man revealed that he had sold 57 pints of blood during a seven-month period...
...LIVE AND LET DIE, Wings. Two in August. Even worse than "My Love." The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road" was a clue to the saccharine pseudo-melodies McCartney would write after leaving the group...
Stoeckel said that the only clue he had received that he might win came two games before the end of the season, when Crimson trainer Jack Fadden told him he might be in the running...
...Another clue to schizophrenia, says Dr. Seymour Kety, chief of the psychiatric research laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, lies in the discovery of an enzyme in the brains of both animals and man that can convert normal brain chemicals like tryptamine to dimethyltryptamine, a well-known hallucinogen. Kety and other scientists speculate that in schizophrenics such a process may be out of control...
...Brothers, manufacturers of popular American tabletop games since 1883; of cancer; in Salem, Mass. Parker's company has established a record for originality in an industry full of imitators; in 1902 it introduced Americans to table tennis under the trade name Ping Pong; other Parker Brothers classics include Clue and the allegedly oracular Ouija Board...