Word: hazing
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...that had cloaked the preliminary stages of the debate in an obscure haze of words-neutrality, nonbelligerency, isolation, interventionist, appeaser, warmonger-was blowing away. The almosts, the yes-buts, the cross-cut perplexities were vanishing. The question was becoming a flat question: Yes or No-as it would be presented to Congress...
...freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
...Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations along...
Political experts long since revised the wheeze, "As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation." (James A. Farley's revision: "As Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont.") This year, scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched...
...flash of heliograph signals in the North Sea haze and the speaking of great naval guns, the world has lately read a certain statement about the British Empire. That statement is scarcely final in the fog of war, but it gives point to such books as Adams' and Muggeridge...