Word: whitewashed
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Noel Hare and Bob Galliers will go after the top two spots in the broad jump. But the Tigers' Jim Reilly and Gene Halton are likely to whitewash their Crimson counterparts in the high jump...
Pregnant Brides. Guttmacher insisted that his intention was not to whitewash the Pill but "to place this matter in proper perspective." The Pill, he declared, is "a prophylaxis against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses-unwanted pregnancy." Experts estimate, he said, that from 200,000 to 1,000,000 abortions are performed in the U.S. each year, with a death rate of 100 per 100,000 illegal abortions performed by non-medical operators. At least one out of six U.S. brides is pregnant when married, and among teen-age brides, one out of two. No fewer than 300,000 illegitimate...
...Distinguished Flying Cross for "disregarding his own safety" to rescue them. The only danger to Thompson that day was from the free-firing U.S. infantrymen. Thompson promptly complained to his superiors that there had been unnecessary killing at My Lai?but a cursory Army investigation turned out a whitewash...
...antimilitary rally. As he leaves the assembly hall, he is viciously clubbed by hired assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains unswayed by police and government threats. Ascending clues like the rungs of a ladder, he finally commands a chilling view of the assassination: Greece is a sunstruck nightmare...
...Vice President's ancestral village lies eight hours away from Athens over a narrow, bumpy country road. It sits in the sunshine on the western slopes of the Greek division of Peloponnesus, six hairpin curves above the ink blue Ionian Sea, an immaculate whitewash of stucco structures with red tile roofs...