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...Kennan, who left his job as State's top policy-planner last year for a sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Ever since the U.S. blundered into global responsibilities in the Spanish-American War, says Kennan, its tendency has been to live in a dreamy haze, preaching moral principles but neglecting to keep the military strength to make its voice important-until crisis was upon...
...Sunday, Korea time, two big green U.S. helicopters windmilled up from Munsan, the allied "advance outpost" for truce talks, and vanished to the north in the morning haze. They flew slowly. In ten minutes they were across the Imjin River; in a few more minutes their pilots sighted Kaesong, three miles south of the 38th parallel, the war-battered town the Communists had picked as the place to talk peace...
...life expectancy hardly greater than that of May flies. In addition to hiring & firing managing editors, Ross was combating his restlessness by having the office walls torn down. The editorial floor was cluttered with scaffolding; workmen bashed out plaster and lath with sledge hammers and crowbars; a chalky haze permeated the halls, assailing-the lungs of staff and visiting contributors...
...warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting the sun with a sextant...