Word: whitewash
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...find it sad that such an enterprising young man should have been thwarted in his precocious effort to create a unified Italy. Most readers, while enjoying the suavity of the Balchin tour de force, will still feel that Cesare was a lot blacker than Author Balchin's whitewash suggests...
...This is not going to be a whitewash," promised Georgia's tough old Carl Vinson. "Let the chips fall where they will." As soon as his Armed Services Committee could round up a staff of investigators, he was going to find out just what lay behind the rumors of skulduggery in procurement of the Air Force...
Fels Carter and John Gay each slashed through the Bowdoin saber team for three wins. Bob Westhrim snared two more points before Tom Masterson came in to mop up the last bout and complete the whitewash...
From the conference rooms rose a heavy mist of insubstantial words. Through it one could hear the faint humming sound of platitudes being rubbed together, of logs being rolled, of whitewash being slapped across naked raw spots of international dispute. "Her interpretation of the dance is certainly interesting. Now if we could find a way to bring it down to the level of popular understanding . . ." Or: "It might be beneficial for us to initiate plans for a study with a view to promoting more understanding . . ." Scarcely a speech failed to make a bow to UNESCO's objectives, "human rights...
...Whitewash, pure and simple," snorted Howlin' Mad. "The so-called board . . . had no more judicial standing than an Army kangaroo court. This board had no access to Saipan records of the Navy and Marine Corps, and sought none...