"Nuclear winter," where we were all going to freeze to death after the soot from Reagan's nuclear war blotted out the sun, didn't quite happen. Rather, the Soviet Empire gave up the ghost.
People have been murdering one another and brewing up a poisonous enmity which cannot be blotted out.
人与人之间互相残杀，酝酿出一种不能泯灭的怨毒。
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Once in a newspaper, I hit upon the news that a quick witted policeman spotted a suspects spittle in the street blotted it up and ran a DNA test on it which led to the mans arrest for a murder.