Word: whitewashing
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Going into the final round the Crimson was still in command holding a 10-8 lead. But a Yale whitewash in saber turned the tide, and despite Simmons's third win of the day, and Hirschfeld's second, the handwriting was on the wall. The writing became even more legible when foiler Bennett was cut down by Ng. Major tied the match at 13 apiece, to set the stage for what one fencer termed "the best day in Danny Snyder's life." Snyder won the next bout 5-4 to give Yale the match...
...after Columbia's terrible trio had been dealt with, so to speak, Harvard was staring up from the bottom end of a 12-0 whitewash. However, the worst was yet to come, as George Baker (142 lbs.) blew an 8-2 lead on the way to an 11-9 loss in one of the match's pivotal contests...
With his reluctance to deal with Kennedy's guilt, in a way, Reybold has written an elegant whitewash of the Chappaquiddick affair. He is too concerned with THE Kennedy, as he terms him at one point in the book, and incredibly insensitive to the moral questions raised by Chappaquiddick about equal justice and the power of certain people in American society. And what about Mary Jo Kopechne, left to drown? Her mother later asked bitterly whether Kennedy considered her a fish, to leave her overnight in a submerged car. It is a disturbing question, one Reybold never asks...
Persuaded that the affair was irrelevant to their investigation, the committee voted unanimously to describe her in their report only as a "close friend" of Kennedy's, not even disclosing her sex. Some committee staffers considered this a whitewash, however, and leaked the story to several newspapers. But it did not become a national scandal until last week, when New York Times Columnist William Safire accused the committee of a "cover-up." Committee Chairman Frank Church called the charge "preposterous." Said he: "We had no evidence to suggest that she was a conduit of any kind...
Freshman Mike Bierer, termed an "excellent technician" by captain Bennett, and Reinaldo Diaz combined to whitewash S.M.U. in the initial sabre round. Junior Diaz has made a successful transition to the sabre division from foil competition, his forte last season. In the round-robin format, Diaz swept to triumph in all three of his matches...