Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, drank a cup of black coffee, then went on to work at the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Palmdale, Calif. There, at Air Force Plant 42, ruddy, husky (5 ft. 8 in.. 170 Ibs.) Pilot Johnson squirmed into a pressure suit, picked up his helmet, oxygen mask and parachute, walked out to a dainty, needle-nosed F-104A Starfighter, a silvery sliver of jet aircraft with short (7½ ft.), knife-edged wings. Johnson checked the plane carefully: 5,000 Ibs. of fuel, no armament, a special package of instruments whose faces stared...
...Needle. He hooked his mask into the life-saving oxygen system, dove the bomber toward a lower altitude so Maxwell would not die of anoxia. The Plexiglas canopy had been jettisoned in the first attempt at bailout, so, as the plane knifed ahead at 400 knots, Obie's face was seared by the sharp, -30° wind, by whipped dust, bits of wire and insulation. His eyelids rolled back in the fierce air torrent. He dropped his amber-tinted visor over his tearing eyes-but he could not read his instruments again without lifting it. His gloved hands froze...
...little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more than a monologue. This Property Is Condemned was another disguised monologue, touchingly acted by a 13-year-old ballet hopeful, Zina Bethune. As an abandoned child living in the tortured, twisted glories of her past, she bore a remarkable resemblance to her older...
...Concert. Near exhaustion, Cliburn found time to chat for 40 minutes by phone with his parents back home in Kilgore, stop by the conservatory to have a life mask made for its collection. Then he traveled to Klin to play Tchaikovsky's piano, played by the greatest pianists on Tchaikovsky's birthday only. For Van they moved the birthday up several weeks. Finally, he played a solo recital at the conservatory auditorium to thunderous cheers, boarded the Red Arrow train to Leningrad, on the first leg of a tour to Riga, Kiev and Minsk...
...silken supremacy") and Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that smiling mask stands the soul of a beast." For this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover...