Word: haze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night, after two days of preparatory shelling, orders came to attack the enemy positions across the Rapido. A thick haze rose from the ground, and through it men stumbled toward the river. Here & there, the earth heaved and roared, and exploding mines killed and maimed men. Many others were killed in boats or on a narrow, ice-coated footbridge. But some got across and dug their foxholes. The haze was still thick...
Late in the morning the sun tore the haze into milky shreds. With the visibility good, German machine guns, mortars, artillery opened up. The Germans sat behind their log-and-stone defenses and shouted in English: "Yank, give up." Or, "Major Brown says surrender...
Through a haze of charges, wishes, hopes and fears, a probability began to emerge. If events continue on their present course, the Poles in London may be too slow in bowing to broad Russian hints that they reorganize their Government, purge it of outspokenly anti-Russian influences. The British may find it impossible to chivvy their Polish allies into a change. The Russians may seek contact with whatever Polish elements the Red Army uncovers as it moves into Poland proper, proclaim these elements as the true Polish Government with or without the inclusion of the Communist Union of Polish Patriots...
Only one Champion came out of the dusky haze of Boston journalism to save the Professor, and that was the Christian Science Monitor which told the truth: Salvemini had taken his secret mission to Bar Harbor, Maine; where he was planning to have a little vacation. LaGuardia can go back to his fires in peace...
Sailors on a trim, haze-grey U.S. destroyer cheered as two seamen pulled away the stencil to show off a new decoration on the side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium "Tiger" German tank, official recognition that their ship had destroyed one of the enemy tanks which gave Major General Terry Allen's "Fighting First" Division a rough time during the initial hours at Gela...