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Word: whitewashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time I thought it was a pretty pathetic attempt to whitewash a screwup. Now I live in a Lynchian universe of confusion and conspiracy theories. "Survivor" is a great game, but it's nothing compared with the one CBS is playing with our heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaargh! CBS Is Playing 'Survivor' Mind Games | 8/3/2000 | See Source »

...right," said Buckwheat. "It's like there's a deliberate effort to whitewash all that ugly history. Take the national Capitol in Washington. Many of the huge sandstone blocks it's built out of were quarried by slave laborers. In fact, The Statue of Freedom--the figure of a Native American woman warrior that stands on the dome--was cast in bronze by slave laborers in 1863 and hoisted up there. You'd think there would be a national museum or monument to them, but there isn't even a plaque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat." Small attack big, big attack small. What drives this pointless sniping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Writers Attack Writers | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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