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Word: whitewashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only mutter through his jowls: "I don't know anything about it." Grumbled bat-eared Michael J. Quill, head of the Transportation Workers Union, himself often tagged with a Red label: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold That Line! | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Coach John Chase used everybody but his managers Saturday afternoon at the Boston Skating Club, where the Crimson skaters opened their season with an 8 to 0 whitewash of a hopelessly outclassed Tufts sextet...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Basketball Team Beats MIT; Sextet Thrashes Weak Tufts | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous for the United Nations to be satisfied with Amery's whitewash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: India's Open Door? | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Truman Committee had a name for such procedure. "I regret to say," said its chairman, "that some Government officials do their best to conceal the inefficiencies and whitewash the failures of the contractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Good Good Planes | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Result of his first attempt as a 1942 Dodger: Cincinnati Reds, 0; Newsom, 2 -a four-hit whitewash which sounded to Owner MacPhail like Series money already in the cash register. But four days later, Bobo was terrible again-the Boston Braves knocked him out of the box in the sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Once a Dodger . . . | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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