Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
Comment ça va? While the smoke from the guns curled up into the haze, Henri Hoppenot, De Gaulle's representative in the U.S., introduced his chief to the State Department's Protocol Chief George T. Summerlin. The three men walked over to a little group of top French and U.S. military men. "Very glad," said De Gaulle, in his rehearsed English, stiffly shaking General Marshall's hand. He passed on to General Arnold, Admiral King, and Lieut...
...first time, the convention hall was really filled. Earlier, tickets had gone begging by the thousands. This time the chiselers were out in full force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey...
...Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...
...Dutchmen stopping in Boston came out to Cambridge to see what they could see. They recorded that the College building was the salient feature of the landscape and when they approached they heard a great deal of noise. Entering it and going up stairs they found a blue haze of smoke through which could be dimly seen eight or ten students "smoking tobacco" as they put it. None of them knew any Latin, French, or Dutch, and the Dutchmen knew no English, so communication was difficult. However, they did learn that the students had no professor, there being no money...