Describing Vegemite as "a quasi-vegetable by-product paste that you smear all over your toast", the US president pronounced it "horrible".

BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011

In another example a lady developed cervical cancer after failing to attend appointments for smear tests over a nine-year period, despite regular reminders from the practice.

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Using a spoon, smear the marinade over both sides of the skirt steak.

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He said Labour had to get beyond damaging controversies over MPs' expenses and the smear scandal surrounding former Downing Street aide Damian McBride to "reclaim the notion that politics is about the battle of ideas".

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But only one in a thousand of those in fact have a malignancy and are destined to die from it. (Most of the 4, 000 deaths per year from cervical cancer are in women who either never had a Pap smear or missed having one in the five years before a cancer diagnosis.) Over their lifetimes, 40% of women get a false alarm Pap.

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It goes so far as to smear the NCAA president for his handsome salary, noting that it constitutes a substantial raise over that of his predecessor.

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