Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volatile Mr. Vishinsky, a man of many faces, this time wore his favorite mask: rage. Gone was the disastrous mocking of his "unable to sleep for laughing" attack on the West's disarmament plan. Last week, before the U.N. General Assembly's Political and Security Committee, he was the angry prosecutor. He asked the U.N. to condemn as "aggressive" the U.S. Mutual Security Act, which allocates $100,000,000 to mobilize Iron Curtain escapees into military units. The U.S., shouted Vishinsky, is planning to set up an army of "criminals and war criminals" to overthrow the Soviet Union...
...wings, devote all of a minute to her, take her back, and then find a new partner. The audience began to titter when the basketball player in the group made his sixth appearance with still another "very best girl." Not even the anonymity of grey flannels could mask his six foot five inches, and the audience's titter changed to a howl when it realized the sort of fast shuffle that was going...
McWilliams is the winner of two Guggenheim fellowships for creative writing. He has written many works on antisemitism, and his book, "A Mask for Privilege" deals with the growth of "isms" in America...
...that this is true only if, by sculpture, is meant the art of making speaking likenesses. For jovial Jo has never been one to conjure up abstractions or depict the unseen "soul" of his sitters. He takes people, quite literally, at their face value. When the face wears a mask (as he finds most faces do), Jo waits for the moment when the mask slips-and pounces...
...Bruins have a couple of tough linebackers: two-way center Ed Sexto and Jack Carson. The latter broke his jaw earlier this season, so must wear. Martian-like protective mask which completely covers the bottom half of his face...