Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bicyclists, oil up your gears, smear on the tanning cream and undo those 20-lb. unbreakable locks...
...Barros Basto, a descendant of Marranos, converted to Judaism and helped establish a synagogue and seminary in Oporto. He toured rural areas telling the Jews that there was no longer reason to be afraid. During the early years under Salazar, the right-wing Catholic Action movement started a smear campaign against Barros Basto. His seminary was closed down, and he was court-martialed for immorality because he promoted circumcision. He died a broken...
...Ford been the victim of a political plot to smear him? Apparently not. As one investigator told TIME, "Right from the start, everyone was very sensitive to that possibility. But there never was any indication of a political vendetta." Ruff concluded that there was "no apparent motive" of the informer "to fabricate." TIME has also learned that the informer was not directly connected with either of the two unions. But he was once in a position to know the internal affairs of at least one of them...
...placed it mouth down in the drainer. She checked if there were any crumbs on the counter to attract ants and, finding a few by the toaster, brushed them with one hand into the other, and down the sink, after the milk. With a wet washcloth she erased a smear of jam she had noticed near the toaster. She switched off the counter lights and said, "I'm not drinking. I'm going...
...most famous anamorphic image in art is the smear of paint that tilts upward, like a dun-colored flying saucer, from the bottom of Hans Holbein's 1533 double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment...