Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the smoky haze of mid-October, the ships came home again...
...steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...
...Corregidor's fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men." Last week many of the Philippine wraiths were again flesh & blood, rescued after more than three years of Japanese prison life...
...life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America in 1620, the President and his party went promptly to the U.S.S. Augusta, the battle-tested...
There would be good weather-in April San Francisco's summer fogs are only beginning to roll in from the Pacific, and there are days in which the bay is blue, and the city's fabled hills stand in sun-filled haze. There would be plenty of liquor, and San Francisco, a city with Irish street names, expected the great men to have a drink when they felt like it. There would be good food from the city's famed restaurants, and every comfort that hotels, clubs and citizens' committees could provide...