Word: haze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment...
...sullen, the sun rose through oppressive yellow haze over Santo Domingo. Houses remained shuttered, shops did not open, little knots of serious, worried people met on street corners, in the tin roofed ramshackle market. Two flags hung limply on the signal mast of Fort Ozama's 16th century "Homage Tower." There was not enough breeze to spread them from the mast but every Dominican knew what they were: one above the other, two little red flags with square black centres, the most dreadful signal of the tropics, hurricane jacks...
...augmented to 143 planes, returned for a sham battle. At 1,000 ft. flew the attack and torpedo planes, ever and again diving earthward with a crescendo of open motors. Next above roared the heavy bombers. Scouting craft thundered along at 3,000 ft. High above in the bluish haze flashed tiny fighters. From New Jersey came the huge Los Angeles and a procession of small blimps...
...some 700 policemen in plain clothes recently heard District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell explain methods of avoiding the pitfalls of cross-examination in court by clever "rapid-fire" criminal lawyers and counsel against bullying autoists. The officers of the law took no notes, and their numerous cigars created a haze which busy ventilators failed to dissipate, but their interest in the district attorney's talk was so keen that they were unanimous in voting for a continuation...