Word: whitewashed
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...women's groups have sent letters to Elliot Richardson '41, secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, charging that an HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices submitted last month is a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women...
Mississippi black leaders branded the panel's report a "whitewash." A federal grand jury and a special presidential commission will now continue their separate probes. But the troopers are not worried. During the past five years, 13 lawsuits have charged them with various kinds of brutal overreaction. Five are still pending; in all but one of the others, local judges and juries have never ruled against the patrol...
...minutes are spent considering the latex paint and high gloss on the polished wooden floors that have replaced whitewash and brush brooms, inevitably softening the mean reality of turn-of-the-century Texas hill-country life. Then the familiar voice of Lady Bird Johnson, tape-recorded and piped through speakers in each room, leads the group through: "You are now looking in what was the President's nursery. The small Teddy bear on the cradle was the President's favorite...
...windowless cells with bars in the ceilings. Luce and the Congressmen described the cells, each of which held three to five prisoners, as 5 ft. by 9 ft., though U.S. officials insist they are 12 by 15. Buckets of lime lined the catwalk. The commandant claimed they were to whitewash the walls, but the prisoners shouted through the bars that the lime was dumped on them as a disciplinary measure. The prisoners also complained of bad food, insufficient water, frequent beatings and being shackled for days...
Last week Santa Barbara County Sheriff James Webster reported a different version: as his men began moving into the area around the bank to disperse the students, one cop's rifle went off accidentally, the bullet ricocheted off the ground and may have killed Moran. To dispel any whitewash charges, Webster promised a televised inquest into the death...