Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delaware River to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Patchwork covered a gaping hole in her hull, her tall mast was scorched by flame, great blisters of paint bulged from her stanchions. Hundreds of shell fragments had scarred and pocked her. But she moved proud and unfaltering through the early-morning haze. In the Solomons that terrible night in October, she had slugged it out with six Jap warships, had taken everything they threw at her, had lost 107 of her men and all of her beauty-but every one of the Jap ships is now at the bottom...
Allocation, especially, has suffered from the crippling haze of direction. With the WPB failing to present a concrete, authoritative program, no attempt has been made to equate demand with the limited steel supply available. Restrained by no long-range plans, the armed forces have naturally made desirable but unfeasible demands. Typical was the month of July in which the army wanted three times the steel it was eventually forced to accept. Bitter haggling and excessive red tape has been the inevitable result. Moreover, delays and shortages have forced the adoption of an elaborate priorities system. Need for an AAA rating...
...sultry, stifling day. A burning haze hovers over the dusty street of the stanitsa [Cossack village] of Starominskaya. Usually deserted at this hour, Starominskaya is filled with unaccustomed activity. Windows, doors and gates of all the cottages are flung wide open, and in each courtyard stands a wagon to which a pair of sturdy horses is harnessed. Villagers take only the most essential belongings; the rest will be buried under cover of darkness where the invaders will never discover it. The cattle were driven away several days ago. All that is left is the poultry, which the children...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...wind socks on Delaware's Du Pont airport hung limp and damp. The sun was pale through the heat haze. A plane flying less than 15 ft. off the ground churned through the air toward two uprights, like football goal posts, set up on the airport. Squatting under the plane's line of flight was a glider, tethered to a rope which looped in a big "U" over the two posts and back to the plane. The plane swooped in. hooked the rope. The glider shot aloft, trailing...