Word: hazing
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...nightmare of white haze, white snow and blinding Arctic glare, the C-47 pilot picked out a landing area. Time after time he skimmed low over the island, slapping his skis on hummocks of ice, skipping from crest to crest like a stone over water. For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt. Photographer Silk crawled from the plane to shoot his pictures.* General Old, who had flown as copilot, trudged back up the plane's ski tracks in the 60°-below-zero cold...
...Force plane took off from Clark Field last week with a group of newsmen. From a distance, the flyers could spot a towering column of smoke and steam that cut through the haze like a high-piled thunderhead. Closer in, they dropped down to observe green acres of ocean that were boiling and rolling. In the center of that vast caldron, breaking 250 feet above the surface, the crater of a new volcano could be seen belching clouds of gas and great black boulders...
This Crimson squad has plenty of good reserves behind fine starters. Unfortunately, though, the thinness of the pre-Christmas schedule will hinder it because, as Weiland says, "you need games really to get into the feel of things." But through the comfortable haze of preseason air, it appears to be a better-than-average club, fast, and capable of scoring. Above all, capable of playing interesting-to-watch hockey against all comers...
...into the familiar mushroom shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...
When football was first played on this side of the Atlantic, it was actually the soccer we know today. It was played at Harvard and Yale as far back as the 1820's, but only as a means to haze freshmen...