Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means being ready to let the world see you as the fool whom God sees, whenever a suitable occasion arises. And it is humiliating to think how much of our unpublished thought process is devoted to doing just the opposite-trying to put ourselves in the right, to mask our ignorances, to explain away our failures, to pretend that the gaffe meant something else. Oh, we laugh at ourselves in private, that costs us nothing. We even amuse our friends, and cultivate a reputation for modesty, by dwelling on the record of our own discomfitures-afterwards, when...
...noon sun beat down on the hawklike face of Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., on husky, handsome Master Sergeant Stanley Adams of Olathe, Kans., on the nervous stare of Captain Raymond Harvey of Pasadena, Calif., on the stony and disfigured mask of Sergeant Einar Ingman of Tomahawk...
...spots, Author Simenon writes with deft satire about his fellow countrymen. Where he tries for something like tragic irony, he achieves only the stale, sentimental cliche about the iron mask of success hiding suffering human clay...
...Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting the sun with a sextant...
Last week his blackened body was exhumed from its tomb in St. Peter's and the face covered with a silver mask replica of his features. The body was dressed in new papal vestments, then placed in a gold-leaf sarcophagus with a glass top for public view. As it was unveiled this week, at the height of the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's archpriest, Cardinal Frederico Tedeschini, spoke for the first time the words of public veneration, to which only saints and blesseds are entitled...