Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House announced Franklin Roosevelt's next speaking date: Oct. 21, before the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Association, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The announcement quieted a furious buzz of rumors...
Nothing that the war had done to England was so important. Last week, with no more warning than a gliding buzz-bomb, the Conservative Government launched its "prosperity and happiness program," Lord Woolton's plan for cradle-to-grave social security. Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own. To most people it looked like "socialism in our time...
...trade continued to buzz; lines were forming for a battle of the Titans. Huge, sales-minded Doubleday, Doran, with its stable of reprint subsidiaries, appeared unruffled by all the excitement; Bennett Cerf's new combine watched Publisher Field narrowly. Mr. Field, admitting that "it will be entirely new to me [but] very interesting," continued to confer determinedly with an attentive Simon & Schuster. By week's end Wall Street money, betting on a first-class postwar fight, was busily calling on all the parties concerned, hoping to invest in a winner...
...Wallace clumped ahead with his peculiar personal campaign, wherein he travels from town to town ringing citizens' doorbells, tells them "I'm Henry Wallace," and then sits down for a little parlor discussion. (This unheralded approach made some housewives nervous ; they never knew but what the next buzz on the doorbell might be the Vice President. What to serve him? Not Scotch, of course. Tomato juice?) In Manhattan's Harlem 4,000 Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech...
...buzz-bombs have stopped coming too. With gigantic strides the war was moving back where it came from-Europe. Britons were stirred, in different ways. An anonymous London Times poet wrote: "We thank thee, London, for thy constancy, There's not a heart today but to thee...