Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...
...child, the hardest part of an operation usually comes before the surgeon's knife has touched him. The strange sights and smells, the anesthesiologist's impatient coaxing, the confining anesthesia mask that is pressed against his face are all things that fill the youngster with terror. To prevent psychic traumas, reports Medical News, doctors have devised a series of toys that administer anesthesia without tears...
Susie is handed a Teddy bear to play with in the operating room. As she fondles it, gas hisses from a concealed tube in the bear's snout. After Susie drops quietly asleep, she is given deeper anesthesia through a mask. Gas-emitting space helmets, toy telephones, dolls and a host of other toys are also used as foils for anesthesia. Most doctors agree that children should be given a truthful description of the steps that will lead to unconsciousness. But the fascination of a plaything is usually enough to erase the child's fear of the operating...
Most recent example is Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...
Last week, seizing on a legal quibble (the case was improperly drawn) to mask its compassion, Spain's supreme court reversed the lower court's decision and ab solved Don Agustin of all blame with the passing note that he "was motivated by the sole desire to resolve with honor and efficiency the multiple and urgent problems facing his community." From all over Spain, letters of congratulation poured in, but for Don Agustin, onetime mayor of Santisteban, the kindest words of all were spoken by a weather-beaten olive picker in his town. "Don Agustin," said...