Word: whitewashed
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...Soviet power short of the point where it could make a victorious war. To discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful whitewashing or reckless scolding, the U.S. can weaken the anti-Soviet front and encourage Soviet aggression...
Yale yesterday suspended three students who used mountaineering tactics to scale the face of Memorial Hall late Wednesday night, but were trapped by police spotlights before they could whitewash huge Y's on the roof of the bell tower...
...Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes. Comrade Thompson was not exactly grateful for the favor. "Judge Medina attempted with a last-minute two-bit maneuver to cloak his vicious class role with a whitewash of judicial fairness," Thompson complained later. "I take no pleasure that this Wall Street judicial flunky has seen fit to equate my possession of the D.S.C. with two years in prison...
...Republicans on the committee voted against the report. Complained Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, who had made the original charge: "A clear case of whitewash...
Chairman Vinson had promised that there would be no whitewash-and no fishing expeditions either. "I didn't catch the question," Vinson remarked blandly when one witness began to wander. "I was smoking a cigar...