Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger is that Cyprus' nationalism will become the effective mask for hiding a communistic drive to win the island. Although Moscow's party is legally outlawed, Cyprus officials admit that the crowing left-wing political group is a Communist working center. If Britain believes it can sit on Cyprus' feelings merely by brute force, it is forgetting the Suez and India...
Also missing from the workout was key guard Bill Meigs, who suffered a broken nose in Saturday's game. Meigs will be back, probably today, equipped with a face mask...
...upsets all our criteria which for centuries have trained us to look for evil behind the mask of innocence, and to oppose it with malice even more subtle and perverse. The whole of Europe is envious of America, envious of her power, her wellbeing...
Will Kuluva, as the Russian spymaster, radiates the impersonal menace of a prescription for arsenic, while as Gouzenko, Townes suggests very gracefully a sort of soulful bureaucrat. Unluckily, there is an epilogue in which Gouzenko himself appears, wearing a black cloth mask that makes him look like an executioner. In deed, if the picture survives, it is not because he fails to lower...
...China simply could not for long wear the mask of peace: the role was unnatural. Last week, after all his Geneva talk of a desire for a little peace and quiet, Chou En-lai proclaimed that Cornmunist China's next order of business is to invade Formosa. "It is imperative that the People's Republic of China liberate Taiwan," cried Chou. In the achievement of this "glorious historic mission," Red China will not tolerate interference from "United States aggressive circles. If they dare interfere . . . they must take upon themselves all the grave consequences...