Word: whitewashing
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...game bird, a hunting-trophy still life with every barred feather in place, as realistic and photographic as anything modern processes have shown since. Yet Jack could whip up a portrait in an hour or two for anyone who cared to pose in his paint shop amid pails of whitewash and hand-mixed house paints. At one period he traveled over the hills of southern Vermont and New Hampshire selling spectacles to the farmers' wives, but always ready to do a portrait in short order. In a small weekly paper his advertisement read...
Senator McCarthy has always been fond of the word "whitewash." When the Tydings Committee showed there was no basis for his charge that there were 205 Communists in the State Department, he dismissed the whole thing as a deliberate whitewash. But now, it seems that Roy Cohn and the Senator himself will get the same treatment from their own committee...
...short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone else's picture) soot & whitewash (a print that has no middle tones) willy (a soft, fuzzy picture...
...major Boston newspapers, the Traveler and Post, denounced the decisions. The Traveler said that the decision "looks to us like an elaborate whitewash...
Before Jones predicted a whitewash, he should have remembered last year's investigations into corruption in government. They "proved" that the "overwhelming majority" of government employees were honest--over 99.6 percent, if we remember correctly. But the news was of the corrupt, and the entire government service stood convicted in the eyes of the public...