Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is necessary, above all, is a redressed balance in the approach of Government to the public. Secrecy is all too often used as an easy cover for operational failures, as a mask for individual or collective mistakes in policymaking, as a shield for actual wrongdoing and as a cloak to hide the undertaking of new and often costly commitments. In part, the prevalence of covert dealings indicates that the different branches of Government simply do not trust one another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern...
...indeed, nothing less than the total defeat of all that had been central to Aauarius' besieged romanticism. Yet Scorpio could not avoid the conclusion that there was a touch of the put-on and package-deal about the whole enterprise of covering the moon shoot. The flimsy mask of Aquarius itself seemed to have less to do with its wearer's famous ego than with the self-kidding that well-established products sometimes employ in their advertisements. There was, after all, a fortune involved. The gross from the serialization in LIFE, the book version and all world-wide...
...weighs in at close to three pounds, and looks about as pretty as a catcher's mask. Nonetheless, the most popular-if not downright explosive-accessory that is circling around these days is the bullet belt...
Ring of Truth. Peeling off the surgical mask, Nolen reveals the semi-deity behind it as a bundle of human wiles and failings. In passages that entertain as well as shock, he tells how he and his colleagues frightened patients' families into giving blood-not to save their loved ones, but to fill the bank for others. He explains why so few patients were recorded as having died on the operating table: to avoid paper work, the doctors quietly sewed up the corpses and let them "die" after surgery...
Cavanagh, wearing a protective mask, played only on the Crimson power play. He started very cautiously on his first appearance but came close to scoring twice in the third period. He appears well on his way to recovery...