Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched the old men moving the furniture out into Dunster Street in the blue haze of the last, last afternoon. It was like all the other afternoons, only with less of the ordinary sounds. Yet what seemed to him a thrashing in the tree tops that was very unlike Spring made him half aware of a rushing, rumbling intermixture of sound and motion. There was the haste and tension of every exam period, yet there was something more. Something that could have been frightening except that it was mixed with a certain gasp of relief, a feeling that...
Stand up there on the ramp behind the press-box. Cast your eyes over that magnificent panorama of baseball, football, and softball fields. Then, gaze towards the Field House. Land, land, land. All the way to the fences and off into the purple haze of Brighton it stretches. What a nightmare for Henry George...
Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...frustrated female who has often been a bridesmaid but never a bride." (He was "plainly," he admits, "not the vote-getting kind.") He watched breathlessly when two Senators (his friends Cutting and Johnson) were in turn offered, and declined, the Department of the Interior. He was in a haze of pessimism when the President-elect detained him alone after a conference and remarked...
...raiding force unofficially estimated at 150 and including some of Britain's biggest bombers, fought its way through bad weather on route to the Ruhr, but found only a light haze over Essen...