Word: papered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Macho scholarship may satisfy a personal need, but Sherry's tribulations do not yield much about Greene's nature. For that, the biographer hits the conventional paper trail: books, journals, diaries, letters and periodicals. His impressive accumulation supports what readers of Greene's writings have already had reason to suspect: his morbid childhood fears ripened into the themes...
...endless mementos of her husband. A sought-after speaker on the international journalists' circuit, she spends much of her time outside the country, often popping up at gala occasions like the inauguration of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, a longtime friend. When at home, she is driven to the paper's run-down plant each morning in a blue Toyota jeep. In her air- conditioned office, she puts her feet up to relieve her painful osteoarthritic condition. And, constantly sipping ice water, she scans editorials, signs checks and reviews digests of news events...
...dominated by the Sandinistas, Violeta was soon appalled by the course the country's new rulers were taking: "I began to see an excessive militarism, an exaggerated Cuban presence and less interest in democratic ideas." She resigned from the junta in April 1980 and turned her attention to her paper...
Until then, toilet paper will remain a rarity in city hall rest rooms. The city cannot even afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer...
Adding to the confusion was the fact that Pons and Fleischmann made the announcement at a news conference rather than through the established route of publication in a scientific journal. Some accused the pair of publicity-mongering at a time when they should have been publishing an accurate paper on their findings for peer review...