Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian morale in Russia had two great advantages. Russia's very vastness and lack of communications kept bad news at the front from spreading easily to the rest of the nation; and Russian communiqués kept the results of the fighting in a convenient haze. In World War I soldiers back from the front told people in the villages and cities how badly things were going. In this war virtually no one had yet come back from the front...
Retorted Mr. Hart: "I reject the socialistic viewpoint contained in the Rugg books. . . . All that I can see in this haze is that some of you want us to merge ourselves into an internationalistic, socialistic type of democracy...
...that had cloaked the preliminary stages of the debate in an obscure haze of words-neutrality, nonbelligerency, isolation, interventionist, appeaser, warmonger-was blowing away. The almosts, the yes-buts, the cross-cut perplexities were vanishing. The question was becoming a flat question: Yes or No-as it would be presented to Congress...
...freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
...Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations along...