Word: whitewash
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...change, a rewrite was inevitable. Unfortunately, for Vogelsinger and Yale their new role was not exactly what they had in mind. The outcome was never in doubt. The Crimson simply outclassed, outmanned, and outgunned a hapless Eli 11 enroute to a 4-0 whitewash Wednesday on the Business School Field...
...Ulster Defense Association started pulling down barricades in their own no-go areas when word was flashed that the army was moving on Free Derry. Later, in Belfast's fiercely loyalist Shankill district, bonfires burned in celebration. Among Unionist Party politicians, who had recently been calling him "Willie Whitewash" and accusing him of appeasing Catholic terrorists, Whitelaw was suddenly immensely popular. One of his most bitter critics, former Ulster Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, promised the government his "full support and prayerful thought...
Suspicion. At his press conference, President Nixon himself reiterated that "the White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident." Inevitably the FBI's investigation was being watched closely to make sure there was no White House effort to whitewash the case. The first suspicion arose when Mitchell and Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray were both at the Newporter Inn in California's Newport Beach the day after the arrests. But both denied seeing the other man there. "The hotel is a big place," says Gray. "I was in Room 331, the Mitchells were...
...seeing more of some people than others; that I have listened too readily to some and not to others; but I can say I have shown that there is on all sides a real demand for peace." Even though some of the grottier Protestants still denigrate him as "Willie Whitewash," moderate Protestants accept him. His concessions to the long-suppressed Catholics have moreover raised his standing high enough that he may yet achieve one of his shorter-term ambitions: walking in peace into one of the Catholic "nogo" areas whose barricades have come to symbolize Catholic fears of British authority...
...Widgery Report, which British ministers hailed as "vindication" for the army, further flamed the tempers of Ulster Catholics, who called it a whitewash. Nothing would shake their conviction that British troops had shot down unarmed civilians without provocation. Bernadette Devlin saw Widgery as "the latest in a long line of British establishment liars." Nationalist Party Leader Eddie McAteer scoffed that "we were lucky he did not also find that the 13 committed suicide." All of which meant that the British government once again faced a crisis of confidence in its relations with Ulster's half million angry Catholics...