Word: smear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surgical nips, are pushing a new aid to the perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs a custom wig salon. But Daniel Eastman, a leading Beverly Hills skin-care specialist, protests that it is an "outrageous...
...close ties with the CIA. A 15-year Foreign Service veteran, Carlucci, 44, has spent the past five years in Washington, most recently as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "What we are witnessing in Lisbon," Carlucci told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, "is a well-oiled, well-directed smear campaign." As an example, he cited a newspaper story that he had served in Chile and had given Spinola the green light for last week's coup. "Well," said Carlucci, "I have never met Spinola and have never been in Chile...
...against imperialism. Through his fledgling Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Malcolm was hammering home to American blacks the message that they were part of a world-wide struggle, a struggle in which they were in the majority as peoples of color. The attempts of the white media to smear him as a "hate-monger" who taught "racism in reverse" (as if an oppressed nationality acting in self-defense is capable of institutionalizing "racism in reverse"!) increased in intensity, with added accusations of his being a communist. His legendary charisma as a leader, when coupled with an internationalist perspective, made...
Essential Investigation. Bergman indignantly denied the charges. Appearing before the Senate committee, he insisted that the homes with which he was connected were well run and accused investigators of resorting to McCarthy-like tactics to smear...
...eastern entrance to the Malacca Strait between Singapore and Malaysia on the north and Indonesia on the south. The impact tore open the ship's bottom, and an estimated 20,000 bbl. of oil leaked into the water. The five-square-mile slick that formed first threatened to smear the sparkling white beaches of Singapore's Sentosa Island, then began drifting westward toward more open water...