Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outscored 23-0 in its six Ivy games last year...The Harvard men's soccer team, which shut out MIT, 4-0, Wednesday, also opens its Ivy League season Saturday against Columbia. With Derek Mills--who scored the Crimson's only goal in last year's 1-0 whitewash of the Lions--playing at full strength for the first time in two years, the Crimson has one of the most potent scorers in the country...The Harvard men's water polo team will be playing in an Eastern League tournament in Annapolis. Md. this weekend. The Crimson opens play against...
...lifeless reappearance raises a number of troubling questions. Murder? Bad. Suicide? Much better. In the good old days, the inconvenient matter could have been put on ice until the ship returned to its home port of Vladivostok, where the official party whitewash would have explained everything. Not now. The ship's captain understands the new realities: "The problem is the Americans. They will watch to see whether we conduct an open and forthright investigation...
...real danger, however, was that foreign press crews might continue to disseminate truthful information, blackening the Chinese government's careful whitewash. At midweek officials charged two American correspondents, Alan Pessin of the Voice of America and John Pomfret of the Associated Press, with violating martial-law restrictions, and gave them 72 hours to leave China...
...often in recent years, Frankenthaler seems to have been content with the merely evocative. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" was the cry when Turner exhibited his more abstract seapieces, but it seems to apply more properly to Frankenthaler's atmosphere-laden abstract paintings of the '80s, with their elaborately swoony brushwork and cunning embellishments of not-quite- naturalistic light. They are very assured but seem a touch overpleased with their own sensitivity. Yet it would be a pity, all the same, if the present decade's recoil from the inflated historical claims made for color-field painting stopped one from enjoying this...
Congressional investigators believe that the IRS in its investigation of Saranow not only ignored key witnesses but also kept him abreast of the case as it developed. John Rankin Jr., the retired IRS assistant commissioner for inspection who oversaw the Saranow investigation, denies a whitewash. "I think Ron made some bad judgments, but I don't think he committed a crime," he says...