Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small but very important anniversary passed almost unnoticed amidst the world's preoccupation with the problems of peace in Europe. One year ago last week the first three buzz-bombs fell on England. They injured 52 people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth...
...Japs would throw into the continuing battle off Okinawa, and into any other operations in the islands, every available aircraft. To the strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...
...Lewis Baker Cuyler, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and Operations of the Army Air Forces. Lost, groping in & out of an overcast, running out of gas and with no chance of making a landing in the mountainous terrain, the five realized that there was only one way out. "Buzz" Cuyler, father of four, able businessman turned able soldier, found out what it was like...
...bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even the professional self-assurance of M.C. Fadiman...
...Line. In Canton, N.Y., bumblebees came out before the blossoms because of the spring heat, buzz-boomed after shoppers who were carrying home fruit and vegetables...