Word: buz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sawdust and paraffin, and sold at most supermarkets, can be dangerous if used in woodburning stoves, and are no great bargain at about $1.40 for a three-hour log.) Still, even half a cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards and supply interruptions. When a 32-mile stretch of Virginia's Skyline Drive was opened up to wood collectors by the National Park Service last October, hundreds flocked in every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they...
Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...
...aerospace plants across the country, the mood was no less sulfurous. "A great surprise and deep shock," said Bastian ("Buz") Hello, B-1 division manager of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the program. The champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots...
...public. A distinction has to be made between disinterested and uninterested persons in selecting jurors. Our juries were meant to be composed of disinterested persons-those who are impartial-and not only the uninterested, who do not care to find out what is happening in the world around them. Buz Swerkstrom Atlas...