Word: smear
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...Whitsunday holiday weekend in Paris, the prop men were unable to find any whipped cream to use in the Barber's shaving mug. Baritone Robert Merrill experimented with a gooey mixture of sour cream and beaten egg whites, finally, in keeping with the stage directions, had to smear Basso Fernando Corena's face and mouth with the fluffy filling from French cream puffs...
...Dief said no. Breaking a long silence on Gerda, a Diefenbaker spokesman stormed that "this unsubstantiated, unverified material is a smear and completely irresponsible...
...rest, whatever the percentage, Dr. Wilson is an all-out advocate of hormone replacement therapy, preferably beginning as early as age 30. With proper professional caution, he insists that a woman should take hormones only under a doctor's care, and should have a Papanicolaou smear test every year. The test serves a dual purpose: besides being a precautionary check for early cancer, the smear is read to show what percentage of the woman's vaginal cells are healthy, prime-of-life types, as compared with the cells of old age. Dr. Wilson calls this "the femininity index...
...didn't want to finish," she admits, "but then I didn't want to be a bad sport." So she let Segal smear her face and place Saran Wrap over her Kenneth coiffure, which preserved for history its general silhouette, if not the actual hair...
Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...