Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doesn't Go Down." Inevitably, some Negro leaders termed the grand jury action a "whitewash." Declared James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality: "CORE is astonished that the grand jury, with the compliance of the District Attorney's office, has seen fit to exonerate a 200-lb. police lieutenant in the slaying of a 122-lb. Negro youngster." Said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins: "An experienced police officer should be able to arrest a 15-year-old boy without killing him. They can explain and explain until they're blue in the face...
...weekend driving habits and the Bobby Baker investigation: "There are only two businesses in the country that are better off today than they were under the Republicans. One is the seat-belt business in Texas and the other is the paint business in Washington, because they sell so much whitewash to all the congressional investigating committees." On another occasion, Miller quipped: "Bobby Baker is going to write a book entitled Somebody Up There Likes Me-Or At Least I Thought...
...deed to a decrepit ranch left to Dullea by his late father, though Dullea can't claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides out of the privy with a Monky Ward order book and begins thumbing through the catalogued commodities: wagons, wheat seed, whitewash . . . wives! Off he goes to Kansas City to fetch home for Dullea a scrubbed young widow and her small...
...Germany--where those personally innocent during the Nazi period all admitted to their "collective guilt" while the real criminals showed no remorse as "the quintessence of moral confusion." The concept of collective guilt, as opposed to individual guilt, is "senseless," Miss Arendt said, and only serves as an effective "whitewash" for guilty individuals to hide behind...
City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci yesterday, described as "a big whitewash", a one page police report on "alleged improprieties" in Harvard dorms...