Word: stickering
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...Says G.E.: "The color sets to be modified have a blue 'fine tune' gauge above the control knob and, on the back of the set, either a serial number beginning with OA or OD or no serial-number sticker at all. Receivers that have already been modified have a red and white label pasted on the back...
...Everything you said was true: as a participant in the San Francisco march, I too saw the hippies and the boy with the fruit sticker on his forehead. I also saw thousands of others: large contingents of doctors, teachers, social workers, housewives carrying children on their backs for the entire four miles, old people-a cross section of the American people. Why didn't you take our picture? My husband and I drove 800 miles to say that the proper response to an improper war is not to win, but to say "sorry...
...Little Viet Nam." Forbes Park, in Manila's southern suburbs, is known as the "millionaires' barrio"; here curved streets wend gracefully beneath towering acacia trees, and deep-piled lawns run down to Rorschach-shaped swimming pools. Armed guards stop every car without a Forbes Park sticker, and the suburb's residents?mostly Americans and Filipinos who earn more than 5,000 pesos ($1,250) a month?have their own golf course and polo club...
...struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from...
...Heart Skipped." Could the polyptych be by Giotto and come from the Badia? Vasari had described such a work on the high altar. Later cleaning proved Procacci's hunch correct; handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt...