Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all their passengers in case of emergency. Manufacturers have installed "automatic presentation" systems in all jets, so that the pilot can make each passenger's mask pop out of an overhead compartment by pressing a button. All the passenger has to do is hold the rubber cup over his nose...
...sneak killer: if something went wrong with his oxygen-recycling system or its indicator, a busy spaceman might not notice it until too late. In the altitude chamber, first Balke and then the airmen mounted an Exercycle. Disguised like Martians in a spirometer (breathing measurement) mask, they pedaled frantically off to nowhere...
Iraq. The new revolutionary regime seems solidly in the saddle but not yet shaken down. Last week the mask of sweet reasonableness toward the West appeared to slip a bit. Baghdad censors permitted the newspaper Al-Yakdha to boast: "We have no reason not to consider ourselves part of the United Arab Republic." The Baghdad radio announced that 111 prisoners (39 of them army officers) would shortly be tried by military courts for past crimes against the state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling...
...demonstrated again her remarkable capacity to seize and hold an audience with the sparest of motions. Under the glaring lights of the orchestra shell, her face, with its thrusting nose and red-gashed mouth, looked in repose like a mask of quiet despair. Her voice is untrained-she does not read music-and she has a limited range ("I have no high, only low, lower, lowest"). But she sang with a smoky, wistful quality that transformed the ballad Pirate Jenny into a shivering mixture of dreaminess and hate...
...watch the rest of the family of ten devour its food to lose his own appetite. When his father asks Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...