Word: whitewashed
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...derided intellectuals who distort Soviet reality. All they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have been irreversibly relegated to the past." Then, in an evenhanded manner, Brezhnev rapped ultraconservative Soviet writers who "attempt to whitewash the past" by praising Joseph Stalin. Among his other points...
...grand jury gave the expected whitewash, and the published report expanded considerably on its original mandate. It first dealt with the question of the Guardsmen (simultaneously deciding that a number of students should be charged with riot). The Guardsmen, it said, had "fired in the sincere and honest belief and under the circumstances which woud have logically caused them to believe that they would have suffered serious bodily injury had they not done so," and were "not, therefore, subject to criminal prosecution...
However, Roberta Benjamin, president of Boston Now-which joined the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) last November in charging that an earlier HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices was a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women-said yesterday that "someone connected with Harvard" had told her that the University has thus far submitted two tentative plans dealing with women, both of which were rejected...
...against Mitchell after only six hours. Just three witnesses were called by the prosecution, although 14 had been subpoenaed and seven were at Fort Hood waiting to take the stand. At that time Prosecutor Captain Michael Swan tried to dismiss speculation that the abbreviated case was an attempt to whitewash the events at My Lai by asserting that his three witnesses had proved the charges...
Calling Harvard "one of the worst offenders concerning discrimination against women in the academic community," the WEAL letter called HEW's findings "a complete whitewash of the charges made concerning sex discrimination...