Word: mask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus Harvard's greatest contribution to modern sport--not counting the invention of the catcher's mask--may well be that the size of its stadium pushed a Yalie to make a major football innovation...
With less than four minutes left in the game, Lamborghini removed Katsias and put Anne Kelly in the goalie box as the eleventh field player. Without pads and a mask, Kelly could cover more defensive ground and free one of the Crimson defenders for offensive duty...
Theater began with one actor in a mask playing all the parts, relying on his imagination and the audience's. The modern one-person show blends that ancient Greek bravado with the calculated emotional exposure of the stand-up comic. The soloist, unmasked, tells the audience what is about to take place, shaping its reactions, soliciting its affection and implying that the customers are helping create the event rather than passively watching it. In this atmosphere, when the audience applauds some line of dialogue, it is hailing its own perspicacity as well as the actor's. The weakness of Lily...
Banter between the superpowers can mask a deadlock, a breakthrough or something in between. By the time he got to the White House last Friday, Shevardnadze had been through a well-publicized week of public polemics at the United Nations and quiet conversation with Secretary of State George Shultz. But the new messenger from Moscow had given no clues about whether he was carrying the fresh arms-control proposal that other Soviet officials had been hinting at for two months. The silence surprised his hosts. Was the Kremlin continuing its long propaganda prelude to the November summit between Reagan...
...claim of self-defense may just have been a ploy used by Israel to mask other intentions, suggested Haggard. Even if Israel didn't know for sure that the PLO committed the slayings, it may have wished to send, not only to the PLO but to the whole Arab world, a threatening message "we will strike back in any situation...