Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renovating the barrier. Grimy, brown sections are being replaced with prefabricated, whitewashed concrete slabs. The old sections were 10 ft. high; the new ones rise to 12 ft. Finding the new whitewashed wall even more offensive than the original, West Berliners risk the wrath of trigger-happy guards to smear angry slogans on it. "It is there, and we have to live with the damn thing," said one elderly man. "But we hate...
...most sophisticated techniques is the fluorescent antibody test, which can be used for many types of infectious disease. A specimen (it may be liquid, a thin slice of tissue or a fecal smear) is put on a slide. Then the technicians add a mixture of antibodies (from the blood serums of animals or of patients who have recovered from known diseases), tagged with a fluorescent substance. If any of the antibodies have had a "charge effect," the equivalent of a magnetic attraction, joining a virus or one of the bacteria, some of the antibody mixture will glow under ultraviolet light...
...this massive and frenetic movement of humanity spells havoc for the summer. On the highways, in the depths of the national parks, in the roadside inns and amusement parks, in the still of the night, 10 million kids are going to upchuck their french fries, 5 million more will smear their cones into Daddy's nose while he is driving, numerous unruly teen-agers will get themselves bitten in the behind by surly bears gone berserk amid the frenzy of Yosemite, dozens of tennis foursomes will never speak to one another again, hundreds of budding romances will expire into...
...What was the purpose of the article? It is obvious that the story was an attempt to smear the representative. The headline ("Udall Wrote Letter to IRS on Sierra Club's Tax Status") and the first paragraph (Udall asking for the abolition of the Club's tax-free status because it opposed him politically) of the story insinuates that Udall is prone to misusing his political powers for his own personal benefit and that he is anti-environmental (despite his rhetoric to the contrary). The rest of the story, however, does not substantiate this appraisal of Udall. Not only...
...part of the frozen frivolities of the winter carnival in St. Paul, respectable citizens traditionally dress up in red devil costumes, smear their faces with coal-black grease paint and ride around town on a fire engine. The revelers, collectively known as "Vulcanus Rex and his Krewe," then swarm into offices and stores, firing blank cartridges from pistols and grabbing every woman in sight for a smudgy kiss...