Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life expectancy hardly greater than that of May flies. In addition to hiring & firing managing editors, Ross was combating his restlessness by having the office walls torn down. The editorial floor was cluttered with scaffolding; workmen bashed out plaster and lath with sledge hammers and crowbars; a chalky haze permeated the halls, assailing-the lungs of staff and visiting contributors...
...warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting the sun with a sextant...
Though Mama sometimes looks at the ruder aspects of life, it still sees them through a romantic haze. Things seldom go absolutely right; they never go irrevocably wrong. For most of Mama's big, fond audience, the family favorite is pig-tailed Dagmar, caught at just the right note of sentiment and practicality by nine-year-old Robin Morgan. In theory, each Mama episode takes up a different member of the family; in practice, Robin often steals the show. Producer Carol Irwin observes with awe that radio-trained Robin has somehow developed a "wonderful sense of timing...
...lower level, September Affair has been turned out with as much skill as Brief Encounter. The plot meshes smoothly, the dialogue is suavely written and spoken, the score puts Kurt Weill's lovely September Song to good sentimental use, and a soft haze of glamor rises from lavish interiors and antiseptically romantic Italian vistas. The effect is as shimmeringly pretty as a soap bubble, and just as hollow...