Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
...monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent as the breath of an angel...
...satisfactory. On the one hand Miss Garson sometimes depends too heavily on the limited charms of a brogue, a bustle and a charade-like servant's toddle; on the other, as if by weary obligation, she sometimes lets her face become MGM's official Etruscan mask. Between these hazards, however, she walks a wide and pleasant road, with evident delight and considerable power to communicate it. Some of her love scenes, especially, are worthy of a much better film...
...scientist (Spencer Tracy) who got burned by the persistence of a bad love affair and a widow (Katharine Hepburn) who got frozen by the termination of a good marriage. Without love, they get along so well as they work together on the scientist's high-altitude oxygen mask that they decide to marry. Without love, marriage, too, looks like a perfect setup-for a while...
Captain W. C. Kulesz, of A.T.S.C.'s aeromedical laboratory at Wright Field, had a bright idea: why not use an ordinary portable oxygen cylinder and mask, such as bomber crews wear in high-altitude flight? The captain promptly donned a mask, jumped into a swimming pool. It worked. Further tests showed that with such a mask a man could breathe for 6 minutes at 10 ft. under water, for 3½ minutes at 50 ft. Normally this should give a man, unless he is too badly injured, time to break out of a plane cabin or turret...