Word: whitewash
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...varsity squash "B" team came against Lincoln's Inn here with a 5 to 0 whitewash, leaving the Crimson in a virtual tie with Harvard Club for first place ion the league...
...Yardling "D" squash team dropped only one game in yesterday's 5 to 0 whitewash over the Squash and Racquet's Club on the loser's court...
...wall mosaics were congealed for centuries by plaster and whitewash in two churches--the great Hagai Sophia, and a smaller monastic church, the Karich Djami, both in Istanbul...
...that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...game went on, signs by night, whitewash by day, until one evening a couple of gendarmes guarding the railroad bridge challenged a shadowy figure, gave chase, and ran him down. It was Town Constable Magne. Said he with quick resourcefulness: "I have a rendezvous with a lady. As a man of honor I cannot divulge her name." But Gallic chivalry could not conceal the paintbrush and paint bucket Magne was holding. Charged with being a whitewashing police officer by day and a paint-slapping Communist by night, Constable Magne was fired last week...