Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London restaurants last week the buzz of war talk had been replaced by: "I say, it is a frightful mess-Lend-Lease. ... If Roosevelt hadn't died. . . . May as well face it ... they want to lend, and they bloody well won't buy. . . . I'm ready to go but I can't get materials...
...have got to a stage where a country could win a war despite its size. It could win, however small it was, provided it had the scientific resources and brains to obtain mastery of the new weapons. If you couple the atomic bomb with the projected missile [e.g., buzz-bombs or rocket bombs], you have something with possibilities that hardly bear contemplation...
Radar was chiefly responsible for defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...
...sign in Egyptian French and English that John Phillips brought home Cairo: "Guests of the hotel as well s officers of His Majesty's Forces are requested to refrain from abusing the privilege of the lifts" -and souvenirs that are pretty grim, like the fragments of a buzz-bomb that landed almost on the doorstep of the chief of the MARCH OF TIME's London office...
...reports were true that the Nazis had already blueprinted an explosive rocket with a 3,000-mile trajectory, Britain's first three buzz-bombs also shattered another historic isolation-that of the U.S.-more effectively than any possible barrage of political argument...