Word: mask
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...glass of water. The message is that it's easy to make it in London so long as you don't do anything convenient or pleasurable. I'm going to be here for a while, so I've decided to go native and hide my misery behind a mask of resolve. On the first day of Operation Repression I vowed to do London on $10 a day. After paying for my tube ticket ($8.02) and a cup of coffee ($3.46), I realized I was going to need some help. I called Donald Olson, author of Frommer's London From...
...renewed criticism. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Mail Bonding The German post office said that giving mailmen training in canine psychology had reduced dog attacks by up to 80%. All 79,000 carriers have now followed courses giving tips on how to read a dog's body language and how to mask fear (Rule No. 1: Don't run away). The strategy has been much more successful than their previous attempt to cut attacks by using CS gas. The mailmen were usually attacked before they could deploy the canisters...
Adding an extra game to the schedule would seem prudent, but that would be inconsistent with the goal of athletic pursuit as the Ivy League administrators define it (or whatever they’d be inclined to say to mask their deep-seated abhorrence of NCAA football...
...stand by the second rebuttal, which attempts to draw its authority from the First Amendment. The sight of protestation before an organ of the press can easily set in motion kneejerk polemics about freedom of speech. But such a debate, while academically interesting, would only mask the most important issue: the phenomenon of systemic, unacknowledged racism surrounding Asian Americans. For our part, we neither seek amends from Details nor wish in any way to see their right of expression curbed. We aim instead to draw attention to the assumption pervasive in the larger readership that the definition...
...trail she agrees to every supporter's request?fix the water, build a road, reopen someone's husband's factory?with a harried and unconvincing "Yes, we will do it." With her mournfully heavy mascara, her graying hair scraped into a stern ponytail and her tired face an impassive mask of duty, she is the picture of the devoted widow?and the antithesis of the bold Congress leaders of the past...