Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incoming investments mask Canada's unfavorable balance of trade ($849 million last year) and even aggravate it by forcing up the dollar's value, thus encouraging imports and making exporters' competition for world markets more difficult. The country's money managers are worried that trade may freeze in this pattern. Yet the alternatives are scarcely inviting. Discouraging foreign investment might touch off a recession. If Canada tried to peg its dollar at a lower level, it would redouble the incentive of foreign capital to invest. And it is questionable whether Canadian taxpayers would willingly finance...
...belligerent pacifist father (John Mills), Icarus organizes a Hydraheaded insurrection at Ferndale, torments the school's bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four powers with a peace petition signed by Ferndale's young peace lovers...
Word from Harvard. As the week's infighting commenced, Minority Leader William Fife Knowland seemed to have every right to mask his customary gravity with a confident smile. Five days earlier he had been beaten when the Senate struck out the bill's sweeping Part III and limited the bill only to enforcing the right of all qualified citizens to vote (TIME, Aug. 5). But he had bounced back to re-form his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals for a surer battle. He had grown so certain that he could fend off attempts to weaken the enforcement...
Pockets & Baubles. Fast disappearing, like Hollywood's old mask, are other symbols of the city's callowness. Its taxpayers spend more per capita than any other major city for art centers, museums. Its big but scattered pockets of industry (current annual output: $6 billion) and topflight universities have attracted one of the nation's best pools of technical and scientific talent...
...remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby...