Word: haziest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami's International Airport, a stocky, white-haired man wearily faced newsmen. New York Lawyer James B. Donovan was just back from Havana, but he could offer only the haziest account of his effort to ransom 1,113 Cuban prisoners captured by Castro after the collapse of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. "The negotiations haven't broken down," said Donovan. "There are simply some points that must be resolved." He had made "concrete offers" to Castro, and "now we must await resolutions"-meaning wait for Castro's next move...
...statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...
...painting as soon as he got his diploma. In 1905 he and three former fellow students set up a studio in an empty Dresden butcher shop, proclaimed themselves the leaders of a new movement that they called Die Brücke (The Bridge). The movement had only the haziest of programs: it simply wanted to attract "revolutionary and fermenting elements" who would build a kind of bridge into the future...