Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is not that the princess has a weak memory: even an IBM super multiprocessor system would be hard put to keep track of the surgical, spiritual, chemical and cosmetic chicanery credited with transforming her from what she calls "a lump" of a young girl into the "internationally renowned beauty...
> Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh...
By this I mean that every effort to avert acceptance of error and failure-every "cosmetic" approach, in current Washington parlance-is simply a formula for further evason and self-deception and for a longer, wider war. Every effort to "save face" will lead to new Cambodia's, renewed bombing...
It is the smaller, independent manu facturers who provide the most comprehensive and insistently organic cosmetics. Gwen Seager Taylor's line - Cosmetic Originals by Gwen-is distributed through health-food stores in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts...
Prompted by a torrent of complaints from victimized buyers, Banking Committee staff members investigated Section 235 homes in ten cities. "It is common practice in the inner city," said the report, "to pick up houses for minimal amounts, perform a so-called 'paste-up' or 'cosmetic'...