Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue-shuttered windows to the hallway of the second floor, mainly out of fear that one of the cars might explode and bombard them with debris. Eleven of the embassy's 14 Marines tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas, and everyone inside was issued a gas mask. The tear gas had little effect. Armed National Guard troops finally arrived to back up the police, and they began firing into the air to quiet the crowd, but to no avail...
...embassy, he remained with his staff. Gunfire raked both sides of the building. One high-velocity bullet ripped through the shutters of his office, went through three open-doors, down a long hallway and struck him in the chest. He dropped to the floor with a groan, his gas mask half off his face, blood gushing from his wound. A Maronite Cypriot receptionist, Antoinette Varnava, rushed to his side. A second bullet blew off her head...
There are events that spark the fire beneath the seeming mask of indifference to the world of jockdom. A winning team or a big game can turn that quiet evening out with the team into an orgy...
Away from her husband, she could be warm and outgoing. But many people saw her as Plastic Woman, with a smiling mask and a bland word for every occasion. Asked if she was ever bored by the same tedious campaign rally day after day, she would answer: "I'm always interested in the rallies, they're so different. Some are outside; some are inside. Some have old people; some have young people." All places she visited were fine and interesting, none ever finer or more interesting than another. She deflected questions with a wave of the hand...
These are the initial barriers that central planning at Harvard must overcome. Naturally, autonomous faculties and departments tend to protect themselves and to seek to mask their shortcomings. Bose says that he faced a certain degree of institutional resistence in his gathering of information, particularly from departments such as Buildings and Grounds that are responsible for keeping the physical plant in working order...