Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowering the Mask. In two days of sputtering street fighting, only four nationalist battalions and 18 armored cars were needed to send the Binh Xuyen reeling from Saigon (see below), exposing their potency as a myth, exposing too the myth of French neutrality. The French repeatedly blocked nationalist army movements, helped Binh Xuyen terrorists to escape. In Paris, just as Diem seemed to be getting things under control, Premier Edgar Faure brushed off the Diem government as "not adapted to the mission it faces." And on the French Riviera, fresh from a hard day's work shooting down...
Probably because they were not called upon to represent pure virtue or pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...
...masked ball sponsored by the Foreign Press Club in Rome's glittering Mattèi Palace, Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida lifted her mask for a better look at a fur-clad stranger, soon recognized her as U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, fresh from business in Bologna (see EDUCATION). As guest of honor, Gina was proclaimed the "Space Girl of 1954." Translation: she filled more column-inches in foreign publications than any other Italian last year...
...wrote anonymously about himself in 1937. Disguising himself in the third person. Nehru wrote: "The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor . . . What is behind that mask of his? . . . what will to power? . . . He has the power in him to do great good for India or great injury . . . Men like
Plainly, Chou En-lai had been sweating profusely behind the mask of peace...