Word: whitewashing
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...whitewashes," said Walsh, raising his voice. "When it comes to me, everything's an open book, but when it comes to them, everything's a whitewash," said Walsh...
Walsh characterized the council's rejection of his amendment as "gutless," and as "one huge, large whitewash...
...Lincoln's combination of fixed values and shifting tactics: "He loved to repeat that slavery was intolerable while he tolerated it, and to prove that something ought to be done while it was impossible to do it. This was probably very bewildering to his brother politicians, for politicians always whitewash what they do not destroy. But, for all that, this inconsistency beat the politicians at their own game, and this abstracted logic proved most practical after all. For, when the chance did come to do something, there was no doubt about the thing to be done. The thunderbolt fell from...
...judged guilty will undergo two years of intensive therapy and four years of follow- up, then get church assignments where they will never again work with minors. Instead, the commission recommended that rehabilitated priests return to other kinds of administrative work. The report, declared the Cardinal, "is neither a whitewash nor a witch hunt. It is a blueprint for the future...
Only those tutors willing to suppress their objections to house policy or whitewash what they see as house problems are part of the Liems' "community." Like petty dictators from, say, former Eastern European regimes, the Liems want a "community" without dissent from their employees. This is, in our view, the worst sort to community one could foster...