Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, the operating room hummed with the efficient bustle of surgeons and nurses. On the table, her face covered by the anesthetic mask, Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra, 30, lay unconscious under .cyclopropane gas. She had just given birth by Caesarean section to a 5 Ib. 10 oz. baby girl. Then, without warning, came the flash and blast of an explosion in the anesthetic machine. The explosion knocked one of the doctors to the floor. But Mrs. Manfra took the worst of it. The blast seared through the anesthetic tube into her lungs. Within the hour she was dead...
Like the oxygen mask, the pressure cabin, electrically heated flight gear and the ejection seat, the purpose of the G-suit is to match the pilot to his high-speed environment. The fact is that the fragile human frame is fast becoming the structural limit to the speed of aircraft. Aircraft designers are already talking of interceptors that will scream through the upper atmosphere at more than 1,500 miles an hour. They are sure that one of their toughest problems will be to beef up the pilot so that he can stand the trip...
Truman (his face a mask): "I'm not concerned about that part...
After they had exchanged a few prances and roars, seven more brightly costumed devils strutted forward to shout their vain glorious boasts and be routed, one by one, by Michael. Envy ("I am the worst of the capital sins") wore a mask of interlaced serpents; Sloth was a yawning frog; Lust was masked by lizards. Last of all came La Diabla, the she-devil. With her seductive smile and flouncing skirts, provocatively hoisted as she danced, the tempting she-devil managed to give the archangel a bad half-hour...
...Fowler quickly examined his patient. Part of the hot blast had traveled along the anesthesia tube: bright red blood from broken vessels in the lungs was filling Patient Cummings' windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than two hours later, Father Cummings was dead, the victim of the kind of accident every hospital dreads. Explosions of anesthetic gases (in this case, a mixture of nitrous oxide, ether and cyclopropane) happen about once in 75,000 operations, and are almost certain to cause serious injury to the patient...