Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While politicians and bureaucrats in Washington tried to agree on the best ways to cope with the crisis (see following story), local officials and private citizens were taking matters into their own hands. Sometimes their energy-saving measures were more cosmetic than effective, but they were almost always imaginative. In...
The source also said that Greece's recent push toward democratization and parliamentary rule was "only a facade which the United States government wanted for cosmetic reasons."
The watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been...
Intriguing Age. Sympathetic to the intense interest of scientists, officials of Nashville's First American National Bank revised plans for the foundation of the building so that the tiger's natural tomb (actually a large underground cavern) would be left intact while construction continued around it. The bank...
Bowing to U.S. demands that he broaden the base of his government, Cambodia's ailing, half-paralyzed Lon Nol last week called for the resignation of his Cabinet. He then moved to invite three former allies-onetime Deputy Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak, ex-Interior Minister In Tam and ex...