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Word: mask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capobianco said of his beard yesterday, "It keeps my face warm for skiing in the winter. If it's sanitary with a mask, I'm willing to wear one. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No-Beard Rule Sparks Protest By Quad Dining-Hall Workers | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...play with caustic Brechtian briskness, and the large cast ably meets that demand. Scene follows scene in revue fashion, and each blackout brings on the string quartet. At first the music seems endearing. Later, the juxtaposition becomes ominous as the waltzes seem more and more like a smiling mask shielding a leper's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Maggots | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...poor students at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture in Champaign. They have no choice but to agree. About 100 scentsitive enrollees are trying to make ends meet by taking part in a study sponsored by the Illinois Pork Producers-one iming to produce a deodorant that will mask the smell of pig manure and make life more bearable for neighbors and livestock workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Nose Knows | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

According to police, Smith's knowledge of such behavior may have been more than academic. Last month he was caught allegedly breaking into a parked van and brandishing a gun to boot. When cops searched his car, they found a mask, guns and burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Moonlooting | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Last December a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun broke into Richard Morgan's San Francisco Bay-area home. Morgan, a burly Teamster, managed to chase him away and get his license number. But after the suspect was arrested and released on bail, police say, he threatened Morgan over the phone, assaulted him in the courthouse hallway and stole one of his dogs. Finally, the suspect tried to blow Morgan up. Returning to Morgan's house late one night in mid-August bearing 75 sticks of dynamite, the suspect was scared off by barking dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scaring Off Witnesses | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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