Word: smear
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...Balakot, Pakistan, a town of 20,000 people that was reduced to a muddy smear, it took the army three days to arrive, even though its base is only 20 miles away. When troops finally converged on a collapsed school building to help dig out some 200 students trapped inside, enraged parents hurled stones at the soldiers. As choppers touched down in wrecked mountain hamlets, survivors mobbed the crews and fought one another for blankets and biscuits. Some Pakistani officials reported that several times stranded earthquake victims clung to a chopper as it lifted off, nearly causing it to crash...
When French rescue teams were first dropped in the Himalayan town of Balakot on Monday night, they appeared as bewildered and overwhelmed as Balakot's remaining survivors. Balakot had once been a hillside town of 20,000 people, but the earthquake has reduced it to a muddy smear. Ninety percent of its houses were obliterated. There were so few people left alive that sometimes, where you would expect to see a funeral procession, instead there would be a solitary man heading toward the graveyard, carrying on his shoulders the white shrouded body of his wife or child...
...manufacturers you've heard of. After some blind "taste testing" of my printouts, I concluded that Epson made great printers. I also determined that HP printers had two problems: the HP prints were not water resistant like Epson's and Canon's, so any gooey hand could smear the ink, and that the HP's blues printed in an unnatural glow...
...When I received the 8250, heralded by the company as a revolution in printing technology, I was eager to see what they'd done to address my beefs. Using special "Advanced Photo Paper," I was able to create smear-free prints, and in a new round of blind taste tests, most of the 8250's prints ended up in the "good" pile...
...Politics of Truth. "She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip." When asked last week by TIME if he still denies that she was the origin of his involvement in the trip, he avoided answering. But he has maintained all along that Administration officials conducted a "smear job" on him and outed his wife in revenge...