Word: whitewash
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...came close to preventing a whitewash in the second period, actually checking up a point but the score was disallowed. The referee's whistle had blown before Whitmore dubbed one in because of a penalty on Stubbs. The remainder of the game was slow, except for an occasional rally, both teams tiring rapidly...
...this disturbed the worthies of official Mexico. Caricatured in characteristic poses, the bureaucrats were pictured as drunk, picking the pockets of symbolic figures or busy at murder and rape. Infuriated, they threatened to whitewash the walls. Students mobbed the building, stoned and scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of Education was petitioned to stop the havoc. This he did by asking the painters to "make no more targets for mischievous boys." Discouraged, the syndicate broke up, the painters fled to quieter places. But the seed of a national tradition in art had been sown. Following were the sowers...
...student scholarship in many respects. Nevertheless there is no justification for construing all statistics into a blanket endorsement. The report has no weight in estimating the value of the Reading Period, since it says no more than that when classes are few excuses are few. Such obvious attempts at whitewash can hardly do more than prejudice an innovation which deserves careful study during a period of experimentation...
Evangelist Sunday made another prophecy, anent his stop in St. Louis. "We'll talk about the campaign we held here for millions of years." he said. With parables and epigrams he summarized the serious topic of his sermon, Eternal Life: "Man tries to whitewash himself when God wants to wash him white. . . . Don't let God hang a 'For Rent' sign in the mansion he's prepared...
Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...