Word: soot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there every day, busload after busload, to see the evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945, and the days afterward; the drawings that the child survivors made to show what they had seen; the blinding thousand-sun light; the river choked with bodies; the melted clocks; the nuclear soot that fell upon the city -- "black rain." These sights are implanted in the minds of today's Japanese children as What? Warning? Against what exactly? Accusation? Against whom precisely...
...hills and across the wooden outfield fence at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, obscuring the sign that proudly proclaims the Berkshire Medical Center the OFFICIAL HOSPITAL OF THE PITTSFIELD METS. The grounds crew, so to speak, sprang into action. There was nothing big league about it. The soot-gray tarp, patched in several places, did not cooperate with the motley squad of Mets employees in baggy shorts who gamely attempted to pin it to the ground like frenzied wrestlers...
...soot release was caused by a loose linkage on the boiler's air damper, O'Brien's letter said...
...soot sprayed predominantly on Line Street and extended to Beacon Street and Concord Square," according to a letter sent to area residents by hospital Chief Executive officer John G. O'Brien...
According to preliminary Environmental Protection Agency test results and O'Brien's letter, the soot was not a health hazard. The letter cautioned residents to prevent children and pets from eating soot stained snow...