Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...Philadelphia, the week's biggest crowd (60,000) saw Navy's versatile Buzz Borries, checked when he tried to carry the ball, pass his team into position for two touchdowns and a field goal against Penn...
...Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with rumors of nepotism...
...China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke...
...Jewish advisers of President Roosevelt. Year ago the American Hebrew pointed with pride to the list of Jews serving in the Administration or acting as advisers to the President. By last week the undercurrent of talk about the "Jewish influence" in Washington had become such a steady buzz throughout the land that the same magazine was prompted to publish another article entitled "Exploding the Myth of a 'Jewish Hierarchy'." By calling the roll of Jews in the Administration, Arthur T. Weil aimed to prove their number is piteously small. The roll...