Word: whitewash
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Unwanted Praise. Wieland Wagner has worked hard to whitewash the shrine that was erected in 1872 by Richard Wagner to himself. He feels that his grandfather's genius has triumphed over the unwanted critical interpretation from Adolf Hitler, who once observed: "Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner...
...year ago the Senate Rules Committee's six-man Democratic majority slapped a few coats of whitewash over the Bobby Baker investigation with a final report that was supposed to end the case once and for all. But Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the tenacious Senate watchdog, pointed out a few splotches, and the Democrats were forced to try again. Last week they issued a second "final report" that is as white...
...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...