Word: masks
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...always had a slight heart murmur, inherited from my flinty ancestors, and when the valve came loose at the moorings, there wasn't much doubt about it. So my wife drove me to the Mayo Clinic, and they wheeled me into a bright blue industrial room and put a mask over my face, and I took a breath, and it was eight hours later...
Armstrong added bluffing to his repertoire, playing pedal-a-dope and forcing Ullrich and his team to do a day's worth of windbreaking work at the front of the field. "When I saw the camera motorcycles pulling up to me, I put on a mask of pain. It was the ideal script, a chance to play a little game of poker. Every time I grimaced, I could feel the Telekom team accelerating," he said after the race. "It wasn't premeditated. It's just a trick we decided to pull during the stage...
...fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover trapped against a wall. Inside the van, a police officer can be seen aiming a pistol at the demonstrator. One, possibly two shots were fired; Carlo Giuliani, 23, the son of a labor union official from Rome, fell, bleeding through his ski mask from a wound to the head. The van ran him over as it backed away, and Giuliani died...
...Senate took the opposite approach. The test scores of each subgroup of students (blacks, latinos, low-income kids) are required to improve just 1% per year-hardly an attempt to leave no child behind. And states are allowed to average the performances of the subgroups-and therefore mask weak minority test scores beneath the high scores of white or wealthy students. This lowering of the bar was partly due to pressure from the 22 Republican governors up for reelection next year who don't want the federal government labeling their schools as failures...
...sinister and manipulative Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under the circumstances) to mask an infinitely uglier offense. This would be misdirection of the kind Dwight Eisenhower practiced almost half a century ago, when he addressed his press conferences in fuddled syntax that allowed reporters and other great intellectuals to go away joking about what an idiot Eisenhower was. Ike wanted them to think...