Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William McKinley's revenge," muttered one Buffalo resident as he squinted through the slits of his frosted face-mask at the snow-encrusted monument to the President who was assassinated in the city in 1901. That explanation made as much sense as any. The 435,000 inhabitants of what local CBers call Nickel City could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake...
...during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs only $4.95 and completely covers the head and neck. The last word in cold-weather protection is the steel-gray goose-down face mask ($16.95), with mini-slits for eyes and nostrils. It is not advisable to wear it when visiting the bank...
Until now, John Updike's speculation was strictly fictive. No one knew what Stevens' private mind was like. All that could be concluded was that one of America's major poets showed the world a most prosaic exterior. Was the insurance man a mask? Was the poet a soul so sensitive it could only exist protected by money-that stuff which Stevens once called "a kind of poetry...
Early Christians were persecuted for meeting to worship, so by shifting the observance of Christ's birthday to the end of December to coincide with the Roman Saturnalia festivals they could mask their reason for celebrating...
...uprooting them entirely, as though they were crabgrass which might contaminate the straight and true Harvard Man; they have seen the absurdity of this picture, and have tried reason, to no avail. The administration is continuing to destroy the remaining shreds of unity, to merge us into the faceless mask that produces the new standard Harvard-Radcliffe person. But if Harvard has its way, certainly these people, and probably the College, will be the poorer for it. Christopher M. Holt...