Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite so open and welcoming as they had imagined either. In their first two years in town, says Mike, strangers waved from passing cars, and everyone seemed to know everyone else, "but we were on the outside looking in. People were outwardly friendly, but that was like a mask. 'Hello, how you doing? Come over anytime.' Slam--here comes the door." Some of their neighbors simply resent newcomers. An elderly woman across the street has two dogs that relieve themselves in the Dooleys' front yard. Politely and repeatedly, Mike asked her to control them. Finally, the woman blew...
Felipe did not know the names for the chemicals her company uses, but she said that when the they were applied on the vine, workers "were wearing a mask and breathers and everything...
...truth about bioweapons, says a Pentagon official, is that they can be produced using a recipe found on the Internet, a beer fermenter, a culture and a gas mask, with a total investment of about $10,000. "If you buy commercial equipment," he says, "and put it in a very small room, you can be producing kilogram quantities of anthrax within a month." And each kilo "has millions and millions of potential deaths in it." A study by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 100 kilos of anthrax spread by a crop duster over Washington could cause...
...Cambridge resident reported that a male wearing a black and white Halloween mask pulled her out of her 1995 Mitsubishi Gallant in front of 57 Bishop Allen Drive and drove off in her vehicle...
...roles, but Bonham Carter was always one for intrigue. In secondary school she announced that she wanted to be a spy--because she loved Charlie's Angels. "It was about being someone else," she says. "Acting is a natural extension of that: being liberated by putting on a mask...