Word: whitewashed
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...work overnight, painting silhouettes of people on streets. The silhouettes were intended as reminders of the Hiroshima victims who, caught outdoors by the blast, were vaporized, leaving no trace except for profiles etched on Hiroshima sidewalks. The arresting images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters in cities ranging from Penang, Malaysia, to Budapest, Hungary. Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police in many areas chose to permit the effort. In New York, Landscape Artist Alan Gussow, who conceived...
...goaltender earned his fifth whitewash of the season—which, coincidentally, ties another team record—and his third in the last four ECAC games...
...Unhealed Wounds In response to TIME's cover story on the fractious political relationship between China and Japan [Nov. 29], I would note that the tide of history can sweep away many things, but it can't whitewash China's collective memory of the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. It has haunted the Chinese for decades. People were massacred, cities bombed, children orphaned and a country defeated. The invasion was the worst insult to China in the 20th century. As a civilized people, the Chinese practice tolerance and cherish forgiveness, but we cannot tolerate or forgive the revision of history...
...bubble tea-drinking, karaoke-singing hipster could be tomorrow’s cultural acceptance and integration. But how much effect can Asian culture have in America if its Asian origins are denied? Apparently, pop culture has since figured out the solution to the Yellow Peril: Just whitewash...
...fighter" and served briefly as a judge in the port city of Gonaives, where Raboteau is located. According to Pierre Esperance, director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights in Port-au-Prince, it's imperative that retrials like Chamblain's don't become "a comedy of justice to whitewash crimes." Most Haitians who wanted Aristide gone now hope to reinstate the army in Haiti - an idea U.S. officials condemn. But it's just one more example of a retro-inertia that seems to have gripped Haiti's new ruling establishment. As he was being fingerprinted last month, Chamblain declared...