Word: whitewash
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...Andover on the same afternoon, the Freshman team, hotter than ever, racked up its sixth consecutive triumph with a convincing 9 to 0 whitewash over the Royal Blue...
...announced) to a responsible position, to quote, in part at least, the enclosed statement made by the Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, after hearing Major General Bennett's report. I have been assured privately, by cable from Mr. Curtin, that this statement is in no sense a whitewash of General Bennett...
Bluntly and blatantly they push their virulent propaganda under the very noses of the defense workers are farm laborers. They preach defeatism, racial hatred, and Anglophobism. Some even urge that we stop fighting right away and let the Axis keep what it has won. Others attempt to whitewash Axis aggressions in China and Europe by arguing that Anglo-American Jewish imperialism made them necessary...
Still, there is always room for hope. The 1940 Convention at New Orleans also turned its collar around and gave the Executive Council power to "apply all influence to correct the situation where racketeering was suspected." Perhaps if these conventions keep whitewashing the A.F. of L., the whitewash will even get grey. Then the government can step in and do a really good paint...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...