Iron deficiency anemia  causing blue skin under the eyes. If there is a shortage of iron in the body, oxygen cannot be properly transported by the blood. Hemoglobin is the oxygen transporting component in the blood, moving oxygen from the lungs to the cells where it is released for normal cell metabolism.
ramrod straight [person] meaning, ramrod straight [person] definition | English Cobuild dictionary. ramrod. 1 n-count A ramrod is a long, thin rod which can be used for pushing something into a narrow tube. Ramrods were used, for example, for forcing an explosive substance down the barrel of an old-fashioned gun, or for cleaning the barrel of a gun.
Called the last great race on Earth, the Iditarod (pronounced eye-DIT-a-rod) consists of teams of 12 to 16 dogs pulling a sled driven by a man or woman, called a musher.. The race, which begins on the first Saturday every March, runs from Anchorage in the south to Nome on the western Bering Sea.