Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
...death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers of the ashes of Lenin's widow; he now can face Lenin's death mask in his office. For Lenin was now a shapeless memory, a symbol of Moscow, of life itself...
...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...
...experienced jumper, he leaped five times from altitudes up to 16,500 feet, laden with his weight in equipment. His baggage: a device to measure altitude and his breathing rate; a microphone; a motion-picture camera to record turns of his body; a stop watch; a special oxygen mask and helmet...
...sniffed the gas, all right, and he heard people around him yelling, "Gas, gas," but, unfortunately for him, there was no officer to shout, "By the numbers, gas 1, 2, 3". The Eli was imbued with a strong sense of discipline, and he couldn't see putting on his mask without a formal command. So with a whispered prayer to God, to country, and to Yale he continued to stick it out, like the proverbial lad who stood on the burning dack whence all but he had fled...