Word: whitewashed
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...broadcaster, Gilligan's and the BBC's top two bosses. The government scientist David Kelly, unmasked as Gilligan's source, took his own life in June. When a judicial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death vindicated Campbell, a wave of critical media coverage talked of a whitewash...
...rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube. You can whitewash the billboards, but you can't delete all the sources of input to a child's curious mind...
...Whitewash signs reading "Brezneves," (Brezhnev's Village, after the Soviet leader) appeared on Zajecov walls overnight, and neighboring villagers refused potatoes "the boys" had helped to harvest. But since the fall of communism, the potato fields gave way to grasslands, and the locals are reluctant to talks about this less than glorious chapter of their village's past...
...film, provisionally entitled The Truth about Nanking, to refute it. "There was a war, and thousands of Japanese soldiers and guerillas died. But an organized rape and massacre of civilians did not happen," Mizushima insisted to TIME. The subject also receives more than its share of official whitewash. In 2005, Japan's Ministry of Education sparked outrage in China by approving a high school textbook that referred to the massacre merely as an "incident...
...Accuse a nearby resident. 5) Switch the placards in the Adams tunnels, forever stranding residents in the labyrinth under Plympton Street. 6) Threaten to call a dean if you’re not swiped in. This will confuse them and prevent them from calling a dean on you. 7) Whitewash the murals in the tunnels. Without a steady supply of morbid verse and pornographic popular art, Adamsians will quickly wither and die. 8) Find the rumored Adams wine cellar. Empty it. Love it. 9) Change the house newsletter “wellness tip” to “Burn...