Word: whitewash
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...softball league, Adams' Alex Coburn baffled Winthrop House batters for seven innings with his "melon ball," as the Gold Coasters gave the Deacons a 5 to 0 whitewash...
...What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must go easy; they blistered committee opponents such as writer...
...long pass and a 60 yard run on an interception gave Eliot the necessary points to whitewash the staunch Commuter eleven. Dave McGiffert passed to Pete Reiner for the first Mastodon tally which came in the second quarter, and Dick Coe's interception and 60 yard run late in the fourth period put the game on ice for the team from "E" House...
...chairmen of 17 Shanghai business and industrial organizations sent a protest to President Truman: "We had no opportunity of presenting our views. . . . We have no intention to whitewash . . . but ... it helps no one to adopt the pontifical attitude of the denizen of an ivory tower...
...spite of the appalling facts . . . you and your colleagues undertook to whitewash Tito's regime of all charges of religious persecution. . . . I joined The Churchman Associates several years ago because of the magazine's reputation as an outstanding religious paper. I have been shocked to discover that The Churchman has used its position . . . to launch repeated attacks on the Roman Catholic Church...