Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealers on Capitol Hill were shocked and angry. Had not the President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...three whole days no buzz-bombs fell on the London area. For the first time, the German communique made no mention of "V1 fire on London." Liberated Paris, however, got a nasty start when it was announced that robombs had fallen "in the Seine basin" (i.e., somewhere within 40 miles of Paris). The Allied censorship in Paris showed itself as tough as London's; nothing was disclosed except that there had been "casualties and damage...
...women coming to liberated Paris from buzz-bombed London, Paris fashions, 1944, were a revelation. Wrote TIME'S Correspondent Mary Welsh: "You would never believe it possible for a woman to achieve elegance on a bicycle unless you could see Parisiennes cycling in the rue Cambon, avenue Matignon, or among the hordes of cyclists constantly passing in the Place de la Concorde. But Paris women manage to look perfectly wonderful while pedaling, balancing hats at least a foot high and mostly bucket-shaped, with skirts billowing backwards enticingly but not boldly...
Pope Pius XII last week addressed himself to buzz-bombed Londoners: "We have sympathized. . . . We exhort you to bear your trials with Christian resignation and fortitude and also with Christian sentiments of forgiveness, charity and mercy so that God may reward in you what the world will admire in you-an example of magnanimity inspired by the spirit of Christ's Gospel...
...London. In London's Institut Français, members of the International P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound for imminent danger. That will not allow time to leave the hall, so you must just duck. We are all used to behaving oddly, and we might as well...