Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes the hours of flight...
Whistler v. Picasso. "Perhaps," says Viereck, "every 20 years, the eternal Babbitt dons a new name and a new mask." Old George Babbitt would speak smugly of "boosting and flag-waving and hating slackers and reds, and hating such longhair stuff as culture." Young Gaylord just as smugly pretends to revel in art and culture, thinks "nothing more wonderful than defying middle-class conventions." And his wife "can't stand those barbaric middle-class businessmen...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
Phillip L. Harris, a graduate student who withdrew from the University a month ago because of illness, was found dead yesterday in his apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge. Police said that William L. MacDonald 1G discovered Harris with a Navy type gas mask covering his face. A hose connected the mask to a jet in the kitchen stove from which gas was flowing...
...Ebaugh warns physicians against using psychiatric jargon or other technical lingo on patients: "Hiding your own ignorance behind the mask of scientific verbiage is more frequently depressive rather than impressive to the patient . . ." The patient should have his illness straightforwardly explained. Psychiatrist Ebaugh is particularly scornful...