Word: hazing
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...Britain gave western Germany and the defending Luftwaffe the hardest pounding of the war. In eight nights the R.A.F. attacked eight times. Its saturation raids fell upon steel and tin mills, munitions works, coal piles and chemical plants in the broken Ruhr, and crews noted that the once-perpetual haze from factory chimneys no longer thickened the night over Germany's industrial valley. Once the night bombers hit the radar works at Friedrichshafen, flew to North Africa over a route free of Nazi fighters, then struck the Italian navy yards at La Spezia on the way home...
...have been exposed to the various technical and electronic expressions thrown so carelessly about in conversation by our modern Marconis. Once foreign words like "oscillator", "impedance", and "curve" (this last foreign only in the professional sense) are now familiar jargon to me, though I must confess a slight haze still obscures their true meaning. My first contact with these "cathodic terms" produced some strange reactions...
...house where Louise Randall lived as a child stood above the bridge in Quincy, Mass. H. H. Richardson, great American architect, built it. In the warm haze of New England's Indian summer, life there was magical...
...watched the old men moving the furniture out into Dunster Street in the blue haze of the last, last afternoon. It was like all the other afternoons, only with less of the ordinary sounds. Yet what seemed to him a thrashing in the tree tops that was very unlike Spring made him half aware of a rushing, rumbling intermixture of sound and motion. There was the haste and tension of every exam period, yet there was something more. Something that could have been frightening except that it was mixed with a certain gasp of relief, a feeling that...
Stand up there on the ramp behind the press-box. Cast your eyes over that magnificent panorama of baseball, football, and softball fields. Then, gaze towards the Field House. Land, land, land. All the way to the fences and off into the purple haze of Brighton it stretches. What a nightmare for Henry George...