Word: hazing
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...taking a squint through the eye piece, annoyed the youthful astronomer particularly. "Yes, that is very interesting," she remarked, and added, "particularly because of my knowledge of astrology." But she did not hazard any prophecy on the course of world events from her observation,--perhaps because of the obscuring haze...
...first day few of the newsmen found where fighting was going on. Only a few lucky ones ever located the scene of a main action-officers didn't know or wouldn't tell. The press had to work in the haze of rumor, uncertainty and misinformation which invariably surrounds an army on the scene of battle...
...thousand feet below the fat belly of the cargo plane, the Virginia countryside had a wicked look. Rocks, scrub trees, creeks, fences, power lines looked as if they lay in wait there, in the blue summer haze...
Civilian morale in Russia had two great advantages. Russia's very vastness and lack of communications kept bad news at the front from spreading easily to the rest of the nation; and Russian communiqués kept the results of the fighting in a convenient haze. In World War I soldiers back from the front told people in the villages and cities how badly things were going. In this war virtually no one had yet come back from the front...
Retorted Mr. Hart: "I reject the socialistic viewpoint contained in the Rugg books. . . . All that I can see in this haze is that some of you want us to merge ourselves into an internationalistic, socialistic type of democracy...