Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taking pictures, a tough-looking gunman in a nylon stocking mask carrying an Uzi submachine gun recognized me as someone he had ordered to leave earlier. He swung his machine gun around and sternly motioned me through the gate. I caught a glimpse of Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi being driven into the compound in a blue Mercedes. The agitated look on his face as he surveyed the scene suggested that he was just beginning to realize how difficult the governing of post-revolutionary Iran was going...
Next morning, a disappointed and weary Scoones was shaken out of bed by an excited islander. A full-grown coelacanth had been caught, he was told. It was still alive, lashed under a fisherman's canoe. With only a mask and snorkel, Scoones ventured underwater to free his battle-fatigued quarry, then nudged the fish into a current. That was enough to revive the coelacanth for the camera. Pictures taken, Scoones returned the big catch to the natives−for sale, of course, to scientists...
...from a 3-2 deficit to waste Jim Yang, 5-3, and finish a perfect 3-0 afternoon. Homer, patiently waiting as long arguments went on between points, crushed Ed Barskdale, 5-0. He gathered the last two touches with his favorite high parry and then touch to the mask...
Gene Purdy was wearing a protective mask on his helmet last night, the result of losing his two front teeth in the Cornell game last Wednesday...
...groups a voice in the way public funds are spent and Government affects their lives. Activist Tribe complains that what really irks critics of an interventionist judiciary is not activism per se but the (often) liberal results. Says he: "The myth of the Imperial Judiciary is nothing but a mask for injustice." Or, as Civil Rights Lawyer Joseph Rauh puts it: "The Imperial Judiciary is simply the conservative doctrine of inaction dressed up in $5 words...