Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started dancing, Pearl Primus won a New Dance Group scholarship, later studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (TIME, July 28), who called her "my little primitive," and West Indian Dancer Belle Rosette, who taught her how to freeze her mobile features and saucer-white eyes into demoniac, war-mask grimaces...
Gromyko was among the first to leave, walking with his heavy, stiff shoulders carried high, head prodding forward, his face a stolid mask. Soviet car No. 1 drove up. The chauffeur smiled with a flash of stainless steel teeth, and Gromyko disappeared in a faint cloud of gasoline and mystery...
...deep-sea divers working on the sunken British submarine Thetis were a scientific problem to famed Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. One day, early in World War II, Briton Haldane impetuously clapped on an oxygen mask and, breathing pure oxygen (to study its effects), "dived" in a pressure chamber to a depth of seven atmospheric pressures (200 feet). The experiment nearly killed the experimenter, but it proved to him that oxygen, under pressure, is a violent poison...
...finally made my way to Paris. The war broke out; I was handed a gas mask and told to go to Bordeaux for my American visa. Months later I escaped to London. Then, exactly on the dot, two years after applying, I received my American immigration visa. I arrived in Manhattan at night and immediately went to a friend who lived near Inwood Park. At dawn I rushed to the window to see the skyscrapers. I saw only the park's rocks, trees, squirrels and blue-jays. I decided then and there that I was going to like...
...weeks ago, Joe's handlers, unable to find him someone to fight, got to thinking of all the unexplored territory outside the U.S. where people might pay just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight...