Word: hazing
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...Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid...
...shaggy slopes of Georgia's hills, flames ate greedily at priceless timber. Red-eyed, smoke-bleary, smudge-blackened men fought, cursed, touched off backfires. Out over the Atlantic rolled billows of smoke, swept east by the prevailing winds. Airmen on patrol for submarines groped through the haze...
...civilized social body. The second was Naziism. Only slowly did men realize that World War II was what Europe's writers had been prophesying about. And then they realized it with panic rather than understanding. Instead of clearing up, the war's terrible innovations thickened "the blind haze" that "folded in the passes of the world." The first task Author de Sales sets himself is to dispel that haze...
Portland: Blacked out. Portlanders have worked into the routine smoothly except that they turn lights on dangerously early in the mornings....Night fogs, common at this season, are now welcomed as Portlanders watch for the grey haze rolling up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers at dusk. They like to compare Portland fogs to London fogs-previously treasonable...
...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...