Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also shifts on the board of directors. Lammot du Pont, who has not been active in G.M. affairs, resigned and Director Donaldson Brown, another Du Pont man, though remaining a director, withdrew from any "further executive responsibilities" on the General Motors board. This caused Wall Streeters to buzz that Du Pont was about to pull out of G.M. Both G.M. and Du Pont denied it. As proof there was nothing to the report, they pointed to the four Du Pont men still on the board...
...latest highbrow buzz-fuzz is something called "existentialism" (TIME, Jan. 28). This short novel by 32-year-old French philosopher-journalist Albert Camus may help to clear...
Last week, at Gus Kuester's, that battle was in full swing and its center was the farrowing shed. For food comes off Gus Kuester's farm on four trotters and squealing like a buzz saw. Poland China and Spotted Poland China hogs are the crop to which his whole farm economy is geared. The acres of corn, the acres of oats, the acres of hay exist chiefly to cram the maws of pigs and finish about 200 hogs a year as efficiently (that is, as quickly and cheaply) as possible to meet the exigencies of marketing...
...Buzz-Bomb. In Kingston, Jamaica, when E. M. Mamby yawned, a wasp zoomed down his throat, stung a tonsil...
...embittered days Tories and Socialists had been trading blows over Labor's four-line bill to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act. The four lines packed more political dynamite than a buzz bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...