Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communistic side. Wrote one: "You have definitely listed yourselves with the Left Wingers, et al., who are set upon changing our form of government." Said another: "If you prefer to be a traitor and love Russian Communism, come out in the open with it." And a third: "You whitewash the Communist news...
Corey Wynn's Yardling squad lost only two sets all afternoon in a 9 to 0 whitewash of the Bruins...
...there any fire at all below Joe McCarthy's smoke signals? Maryland's thorough and careful Democratic Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, promised "neither a witch hunt, nor a whitewash...
...last December to declare war on his own responsibility. Thus, with deft timing, he moved to recall an act which had provoked even more criticism than his alleged part in the Haitian plot. Thus the wily dictator also washed his hands in public and waited hopefully for an amiable whitewash at the hands of the Peace Commission...
...Soviet power short of the point where it could make a victorious war. To discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful whitewashing or reckless scolding, the U.S. can weaken the anti-Soviet front and encourage Soviet aggression...