Word: whitewashed
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Died. George Herbert Moore, 84, retired U.S. District Judge in St. Louis, a portly senior jurist whose bulldog determination in the 1950s forced grand jury inquiries into tax fixing within the Bureau of Internal Revenue that ended, despite all attempts at whitewash, in indictments including such Truman Administration officials as T. Lamar Caudle and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue James P. Finnegan; in St. Louis...
...German Boss Walter Ulbricht, desperately attempting to justify the Wall's existence, hopes for a visit from Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. According to one story current in West Berlin. Gomulka summoned the East German ambassador when he heard that he was expected to whitewash the Wall and told him angrily: "The only thing we know like it in history is the one you Germans built around the Warsaw ghetto...
...Your lead article on Nelson Rockefeller shamefully tries to whitewash the most important fact that will cause his defeat at the polls this fall-his divorce...
...result is neither an attack on appeasement, nor a whitewash of Hitler. It is a successful attempt discuss the central problem of the thirties: the failure of most people to distinguish between the real, the crucial German problem, and the inflated (or otherwise distorted) picture of it. No doubt Hitler's demands were unreasonable; but they reflected the interests of a strong, legitimate Power, run by an arch-opportunist dealing with short-sighted...
Tiny Gambia, Britain's oldest African possession, was so spruced up that a local government official commented: "Stand still for five minutes and someone is bound to whitewash you." Here the Queen's schedule was purposely kept light so that she could return to Britain looking as fresh as when she had left...