Word: masking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meeting. "I'm the poster child of Russian ambiguity," he says. But a country that jails or denies visas to some of its most successful tycoons is bound to be seen as unreliable. No amount of sweet-talking by Rosneft's president - or Putin - can mask that...
...executive suite, she shows plenty of moxie. You're not exactly certain she knows exactly what she's doing, but you also see that she has an unacknowledged instinct for the jugular, which she ever so sweetly deploys. You surely can't blame Streep for letting Miranda's mask (white blonde mane, white-on-white makeup) slip from time to time - especially since she so quickly recovers from these shows of vulnerability; you have to wonder, in these moments, if they are part of a game she's playing, trying to seduce Andrea over to the dark side...
...blood agent, which means it poisons cells by preventing them from being able to utilize oxygen carried in the blood. Exposure leads to dizziness, nausea, weakness, loss of consciousness and convulsions. Breathing stops and death follows. (Since blood agents are carried through the respiratory system, a gas mask is the only protection needed. If one is exposed to blood agents, amyl nitrite provides an antidote, if administered quickly enough.) (See surprising assets on the CIA payroll...
...Being plopped onto a piece of plywood, having your clothes ripped off, a two hundred pound man driving the heels of his hands into the center of your chest while others poke needles into your limbs and groin, another squeezes a rubber mask over your face and another prepares to send four hundred watt-seconds of electricity across your body is a noxious stimulus, however you slice...
...Displeasure showed on her face. I had been pushed out of the way by senior residents within a minute. They had her well-ventilated with the mask and "lined up" (all the IV's inserted, fluid pouring into her circulation to increase her dangerously low blood pressure). Same for the old man on whom she had passed...