Word: whitewashing
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...confusion. In practical terms, too, their results have been mixed. Ironically, some of the criminals of Auschwitz got off "extremely lightly" because the rules of evidence, which the Nazis had scrapped, had been reimposed in the name of justice by the Allies. Most Nazis were soon issued their Persilscheine ("whitewash slips," a name derived from a brand of soap powder). Modern Germany is run by the Persils and former members of another swiftly exonerated group, the Mussnazis (Nazis by necessity). Sad to say, the minority of truly non-Hitlerite Germans have taken little part in the life of West Germany...
...Your whitewash of this youth culture may well precipitate the flood that will inundate us all. They plan to take over the helm, and apparently you've welcomed them aboard-but how long could even TIME stay afloat if manned by people who don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain...
...Bulldogs have lost only once this season. That loss was handed to them by Priceton, who drubbed the Elis, 7-0. It was the first whitewash give a Yale team since 1948. The Bulldogs could be angry after that loss...
...varsity tennis team, steadily picking up momentum, registered its third whitewash of the season yesterday at the expense of Brown, 9-0. The Crimson's record since the spring trip...
With a 6-0 lead after singles, Harvard had no reason to worry about the doubles. The number one team of Levin and Jarvis had no trouble. The second Crimson team of Washauer and Nielsen took their match, 6-4, 6-3, and Terrell and Oxford completed the whitewash...