Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush...
Last weekend, the Crimson dropped a pair of games in its once proud stadium, 3-2 to Vermont Friday and 4-0 to RPI Saturday. The weekend whitewash was the Crimson's first since 1981, when Harvard dropped back-to-back games to Clarkson and Providence at Bright...
...plan in any way to whitewash my sin or call it a mistake," he told his tearful but apparently forgiving congregation. "I call...
...Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open its first U.S. outlet this week, in suburban Philadelphia. Among...
...trigger an artificial rally in the stock market. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigated the accusation and found no evidence of wrongdoing, but the issue will not go away. Says one Senate Banking Committee staffer: "We want to see if the C.F.T.C. report is a whitewash...