Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This being a dinner for "company," my friends went at it with relish, despite rattling dishes and window panes, constantly shivered by V-2 and buzz-bomb blasts all around. Their eagerness to share their little with me did more to create the lump in my throat than did the thought of their plight...
...definitely ended; the Germans had been driven out of effective range. There were official toll figures: 8,436 persons killed, 25,101 injured by V-bombs since the attacks began on June 15. But Britons kept their fingers crossed; the enemy might still use aircraft to bring V-1 buzz-bombs again into range of England...
...Easter holidays brought a prayerful hope to Britons: that they had seen and felt and heard the last of the Germans' devilish V-bombs. For three days and nights, up to this week, not a single buzz-bomb (V1) or rocket bomb (V2) had fallen on Britain...
...recent trips, Tom and I were stabled together. . . . Not more than five minutes after he crept aboard his cot, Mr. Durrance began his performance. He started with the classical buzz-saw motif and ran through other conventional numbers...
...Readers should be spared the half-buzz-half-hush of libraries, "which is distinctly worse than overhead riveting...