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As the hearing opened, there was further evidence of a whitewash to protect more senior officers.
At the time, Elisse Hategan, a prominent defector from the Heritage Front, slammed the report as a whitewash.
The president of Rats campaign group, Paul Dainton, welcomed the reports but said they were something of a whitewash.
Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts.
But when we are busy condemning national chauvinism, religious hatred and war crimes abroad, it is no time to whitewash our own past.
Mohammed kept losing his sandals and slipping on the tile, and the ball nearly overturned boxes of vegetables and pails of whitewash.
But there was a growing backlash from supporters of the BBC who claimed Lord Hutton's report had been a whitewash.
Months later, in October 2002, the committee's Certain Maritime Incident report produced a whitewash.
They were of an older stile, bricks and mortar peeping out from behind chipped whitewash.
The two main churches, the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk, are serene oases of wood, brick and whitewash.
Men dig the raw material in the mountains and transport it to their homes where women apply it to the house walls as whitewash.
In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.
The next day, Aunt Polly punishes him for playing hookey by making him whitewash their entire fence.
Light spattered down the steps like whitewash off a sloppy painter's brush, but the splashes caught no one.
Both the government and opposition are now engaged in attempting to whitewash the military.
Our girls got off to a great start and threatened to whitewash their opponents in the first half.
Writers who whitewash the facts in order to present their side of a story don't do anyone any good, least of all their own followers.
The whitewash walls were in good repair but the roof was mossy and many of the tiles were cracked or askew.
Wall paintings in particular, once so abundant, have succumbed to decay, destruction, or covering over with whitewash.
If Democrats have politicized the scandal and exaggerated it, Republicans have inexcusably tried to whitewash it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All mold and mustiness should be kept out by thorough ventilation and frequent coats of whitewash to the walls.
The sodium chloride should be added after the whitewash solution is made up.
Mrs. Rabbit wanted to know what he meant by carrying off some of her whitewash.
They are arranged over cesspools 18 feet deep, disinfected every day with whitewash and cresol, and are quite odourless.
In 1861 the whitewash was removed, and the colours, as far as traceable, restored.
I ast seberal colored men, but dey'd radder whitewash an' clean chicken coops.
Paint is preferable to whitewash or calcimine for the walls, since it is less affected by steam, and can be more readily cleaned.
There was a line of whitewash near the top of the coaly wall.
Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush.
They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash.
At all events, its colour remained unimpaired by paint or whitewash.
Slowly rebuilt and finally completed in 1830, the building's popular name was reinforced by the replacement of whitewash with more permanent white lead paint.
The walls were whitewashed, and at about four feet from the ground a dark band appeared, produced by pencil memoranda and little sketches scribbled on the whitewash.
Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps.
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