Word: hazing
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...maintenance of revolutionary discipline in the armed forces. The other dealt with peace talks. Mao wrote, "We should not refuse to enter into negotiations because we are afraid of trouble and want to avoid complications, nor should we enter into negotiations with our minds in a haze. We should be firm in principle: we should also have all the flexibility permissible and necessary for carrying out our principles...
...inform Peking of a change in the U.S. stand so as to clear the "haze" out of the minds of the leaders there concerning U.S. intentions, the Nixon Administration must first convince them of U.S. sincerity. Since the Chinese cancelled the February 20 talks, the State Department has carried out some of the unilateral steps its spokesman said would have been raised had the talks been held that day. A more substantive approach would be to completely end the U.S. trade embargo against the Mainland...
...tacky writers's bungalows, and the looming shapes of the sound stages, lofty and featureless as airplane hangars, all stand on the sandy lot divided by wide dusty roads, baking silently in the heat. There is something hallucinatory about those roads, white and glaring, always seen through a quivering haze of dust that hangs hesitantly in the air, as if great troops of extras had just passed through, or perhaps a star in her limousine, followed by her entourage of beasts and heroes. And yet these roads are always empty now, the heat shedding a terrible silence over their glare...
...darkness: high above, at the far distant end of the dark tunnel, a circle of sky sheds a faintly luminous, neon-fogged light. In the woolly silence, thoughts emerge slowly, but with a perfect weighty clarity, like globes of blown glass. Right away, you notice that the gritty daytime haze of dust has disappeared, to be replaced by night, and it is like being on the ocean floor, so slow is it and silent, so dimly blue...
...high a price to pay. Ultimately all considerations about the war in Israel are academic, the cause, the motivation, the minute detail: it is above all a war for survival, for preservation both national and individual. The outcome, if there is ever to be one, is lost in future haze, while the war itself, slowly, sadly, inevitably, is becoming identical in Israel to life itself...