Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with pleasure your review of Gary Lindberg's The Confidence Man in American Literature [Dec. 28]. Surely you should have cited one of the most noteworthy examples of American con: Tom Sawyer lining up the young and unsuspecting to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence. Dale G. Haake Rock Island...
...snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat...
...that if a club won both halves, the second playoff spot would go to the team with the second best record during the second season. Thus each team would have to win games, not lose them, against every opponent. Cincinnati Reds President Dick Wagner called the solution a "whitewash," an understandable complaint since Kuhn had effectively nullified 35 Reds' victories in the first half. Equally outraged were the Baltimore Orioles, who conceivably could finish with the best overall record in all of baseball and still miss the playoffs. Orioles' Owner Edward Bennett Williams, an outspoken critic...
...Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
...which not so long ago chanted "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh"? The "hostile crowd of about 100" which you reported was composed almost exclusively of Vietnamese. Many of them are boat people and recently arrived, and their hostility was directed exclusively at Ngo Vinh Long for his attempt to whitewash a regime which they know from painful experience to be corrupt, incompetent, and repressive...