Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours sleep nightly on a couch near his office desk. Visitors to his Baghdad Defense Ministry headquarters were impressed by his tightly reined self-control and the masklike grin he wore. But the assassin's bullets that crumpled his left shoulder last October seem to have shattered the mask, and perhaps shattered Kassem's tight self-control as well...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...
Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses...
...York Rangers' Andy Bathgate full in his face. The game was delayed 25 minutes while a doctor put seven stitches in the cut on the left side of his nose. But when he skated back to his place in front of the net, Plante was wearing the mask he had previously used only in practice. Rival goalies lifted scarred eyebrows and wondered whether the mask would slow Plante's split-second performance...
Last week they had their answer, were talking about getting masks of their own. Plante fashioned his first shutout of the season by blanking the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-0, had allowed only five goals in five games (v. 28 in twelve pre-mask games), was a major reason for the Canadiens' long lead in the N.H.L. Said Plante: "When I first put on the mask, the boys all told me I would scare the women. They wouldn't come to see the games any more. I'll tell you something: if I went...