Word: hazing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When gas was selling at $1 a gal. two summers ago, we didn't make Strom Thurmond pretend to hear people testify about that. We were happy, running through gasoline-spewing sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...
...defeated by a liberal Southerner but lives to see his near namesake son restore the dynasty despite losing the popular vote to a populist from Tennessee. Now comes something even more exciting for his reputation: America's most beloved biographer, David McCullough, has plucked Adams from the historical haze, as he did Harry Truman, and produced another masterwork of storytelling that blends colorful narrative with sweeping insights...
Ellroy lives a quiet life in Kansas City, Kans., with his wife Helen Knode, "whom I love more than my life and would happily die for," and his bullterrier Dudley, which chases female joggers through his neighborhood. After years in a drug and alcohol haze, he takes care of his health, eating well and working out regularly. At 53, he says, he is still "10 years from the top of my game." He travels tirelessly around the world to promote his books as they come out, then returns to his six-bedroom house in Kansas City--to think...
...ceremony of the patriarchy, if you like. Gillette Blue Blades sponsored other ceremonies: prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...
...Michael Coen, had scanned the sea with the periscope, Waddle took the scope and did a search. "When I looked out to Oahu I could see the peaks of the mountains and then a white belt. I thought, 'That's odd--I've never seen that before.'" The white haze made the small white hull of the Ehime Maru hard to distinguish. Waddle did not linger, though, since he was eager to impress his guests. He ordered the ship to dive deep and then rocket back up to the surface. In retrospect he concedes he was pushing ahead too quickly...