Word: masking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to students participating in the program, mask making is "phat...
Students who participated in the mask masking were members of three different after-school programs run under the supervision of the school...
...smallest contingent of mask-makers was a group of Brownies affiliated with the Girl Scouts of America...
...says she learned that her husband had taken the girl to the movies with the free passes recruiters are given for their sign-up campaigns and that he had helped falsify the 18-year-old's enlistment papers to mask her asthma. A neighbor told the wife that shortly after she left town for a trial separation last month, the young girl moved into the recruiter's town house. The neighbor took pictures of the teenager entering and leaving the premises...
...summit of Mount Everest. Sucking a lean mixture of bottled oxygen and air that only partly made up for the dire thinness of the atmosphere, he managed a single step to three or four heaving breaths. To his oxygen-starved brain, the world beyond his rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged, disengaged." A bit later, without drama or any great feeling of elation, he reached the top: "a slender wedge of ice, adorned with...