Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold was a man of many amours, and he took them the way a child eats candy. But his infatuation for Cléo caused as big a buzz as Ludwig of Bavaria's fling with Lola Montez. Proletarians denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring...
...gaunt, one-armed man in his worn 50s, and he had to hold his notes close up to his eyes; age and ten years in German concentration camps had all but blinded him. When he began with a polite meine Damen und Herren, a buzz swept over the crowd of British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt...
...dropped near a red flag laid out on the glacier. In the next 24 hours, so many packages were dropped that a Swiss plane asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier had an even greater worry. As planes swooped low to buzz the Dakota, they heard ominous rumbles in the glacier; they feared that engine vibrations were widening the fissures. To warn planes away, the word "FINI" was trudged out in the snow (see cut). Confused observers thought it might be a bad American spelling of a French word (finis) indicating that...
Towards 4:30* on that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always...
...screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal organs. Before his eyes, little lights will flash. In his ear a buzzer will buzz. He can put out the lights and still the buzzer by pressing the proper buttons. When he no longer can, he will be considered unconscious...