Word: whitewashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Quick Whitewash. Only one thing went wrong: Impellitteri filed for mayor. Followed by a handful of Tammany district leaders who hoped to run the Tiger as they pleased if he won, Impy wrote out his own bill of divorcement from the Democratic machine, gave himself a quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...Nobler Ideal. Some of the whitewash seems a little thick. But the timidity of Japanese statesmen who wanted peace is explained, in part at least, by the army's ferocity in assassinating its enemies in the government, as well as by its success in dissolving any cabinet that opposed its views. Even after the fall of Okinawa, the supreme command was determined to fight on, ignoring frantic Japanese diplomatic moves to negotiate a peace through Russia's good offices...
...Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie England' full cream hot milk shake (boiled soya stock with vanilla-flavored export-reject whitewash...
...Communistic side. Wrote one: "You have definitely listed yourselves with the Left Wingers, et al., who are set upon changing our form of government." Said another: "If you prefer to be a traitor and love Russian Communism, come out in the open with it." And a third: "You whitewash the Communist news...
Corey Wynn's Yardling squad lost only two sets all afternoon in a 9 to 0 whitewash of the Bruins...