Word: hazier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted his new adversary on the jaw, got kicked in the face in reply. Next morning Pugilist Mitchum turned up for moviemaking with a cut nose, fast-blackening...
...third of a nation [is] ill-housed." A structure so costly-taking in mortgage insurance, home-improvement loans, slum clearance, public housing, special programs for colleges, military posts, old people, veterans, farmers-requires clear definitions of its purpose and scope, but in mid-1958 the definitions are even hazier than they were in New Deal days. Federal housing programs seem to be founded on a feeling that better housing is A Good Thing-a worthy sentiment, but too vague, in itself, to serve as a national policy. Even a definition of "better" is lacking, so that federal funds often contribute...
...clear sky you suddenly fell in love with Mr. Young, do you? Do you think we are so naive that we think you did it just because you liked the color of his eyes?" ..Blair Spelled Backwards. From that point on, the week's developments got somewhat hazier. As one witness explained, "There's no law against double-talk." Rosenbaum, blandly talking of his and Young's financial maneuverings, declared that he had been following no less an authority than Federal Judge Learned Hand by obeying the precept: "Every citizen has a duty to minimize his taxes...