Word: hazing
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...Nine is too uneven. high MIG, but it disappeared in a haze. The wingman tangled with the diving MIG, which had a resourceful pilot in the cockpit. When the wingman had tired himself out trying to get a shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed...
...showed his Phillies hurtling into home plate, reaching for high throws, waiting narrow-eyed for the pitch. His crowds sit in the smoky blue haze of night games, ripple away like waves as a pop foul lands in their midst...
...weather was chilly, dry and dangerous. Across the land, patches of haze and smoke from forest fires hung in the air. In Idaho, Apaches flown up from the Southwest to fight fires vainly staged a rain dance (too far from home, said the braves, to do any good), and went home again. East and West, farmers scuffed at the powder-dry earth and reported winter wheat in danger. The months-old drought grew so bad that Dallas was almost without drinking water, and citizens were discouraged from taking baths...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...
...setting was tragically familiar. At 3:33 a.m., the pilot of a twin-engine transport plane arriving from New York radioed that he was lost in a thick haze somewhere near Los Angeles. At 3:54, as the pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash...