Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previous recipients of the prize, which is given each year for medical research and public service, include the physicians who invented the pap smear test for cancer, scientists who developed the cure for syphilis and others who originated the polio vaccine...
...suddenly, as if manna from heaven, the solution to these problems stared me right in the face from the bottom of the styrofoam quarter-pounder with cheese package. Two pickles lay dead in a smear of ketchup and mustard, offering up their lives to improve the rest of the world...
...Core Curriculum and Science Center officials, clearly called for some kind of College punishment. But these freshmen didn't get a warning. They didn't get academic or disciplinary probation. They didn't get kicked out for one semester. They got a year--a permanent and possibly devastating smear on their records--and absolutely no chance to appeal to another body...
...Sherman Oaks, Calif., Cathy- Lee Vincent, a store employee, is transfixed by the televised image of her face as electronic "makeup" is applied, cleaned off and then reapplied in a rainbow of hues and shades. As Bonnie Sinclair, a promotional representative for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, wields her stylus, a smear of eye shadow reshapes Vincent's eyes. A touch of blusher highlights her cheeks...
...descriptions of the diagnoses for many STDs (Zinner believes that STD should be used as common terminology for what was once called VD) is confusing at best, annoying at its worst. The way in which smear tests are applied to microscopic slides are of interest to perhaps a few physicians. But even to those with STDs, who may have had experience with the actual tests, Zinner's details of the procedures are still difficult to follow...