Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's center will also provide a lesbian lounge, a high-school equivalency course, emotional counseling by women from Radical Therapists, and paramedical training on a administering pregnancy, VD, and pap smear tests...
...Smear Tactics. Though Loeb has been the dominant force in New Hampshire journalism since he bought into the Union Leader in 1946, he does not even live in the state. Rather, he divides his time between a ranch near Reno and a stately neo-Tudor home at Prides Crossing, Mass., 60 miles south of Manchester. He seldom shows up at the Union Leader but phones the paper every day from wherever he happens to be, to "keep track of things" and often to dictate a front-page editorial straight off the cuff. He never writes them out in advance because...
Liberals outside the state consider Loeb a laughable Neanderthal who invariably backs sure losers for office, but those in New Hampshire take him seriously and fear his front-page thrusts. They claim with some justification that his charges amount to smear tactics; indeed, many of his accusations later turn out to be overdrawn or undocumented. This does not bother Loeb in the least. "The tragedy of the newspaper business today is that it's too gray," he says, "not enough black and white, no emotional involvement. Sooner or later, people will stop reading them." That is hardly likely...
...preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes a single smear from the patient's vaginal or anal area, places it in a tube enriched with a nutrient developed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, and looks for a reaction in 24 to 48 hours. The new "Clinicult" test costs the doctor $2.30 and gives results as accurate...
What conceivably may save the Bruins from a total smear is that fact the several Crimson swimmers are not going to compete because of sickness, and several others will be swimming in new events. "If they are going to be sick, now's the time," said Gambril, "not during exams or February...