Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, while delirious Frenchmen danced and kissed, Germans stared stolidly into blackness and even Britons wondered. For as the war's fifth birthday came round, the British, like the Germans, were tired. Buzz-bombs were worse than the blitz. And Britons worried over the look of the world to come. For Poland, even victory would mean a national tragedy. For France, it was a vast questionmark. Ever since the blitz failed the British had known that victory would one day be theirs, as the Germans after Stalingrad and North Africa had glimpsed the spectre of defeat. And they...
...Britain today is not an easy thing," he continued. "Transportation is a genuine problem. There is no such thing as a reservation. The railroads are in constant use moving troops, and evacuating increasingly large numbers of women and children to rural regions where they will be safe from the buzz bombs.' It is a customary thing nowadays to stand on trains for even the longest distance trips, and in many cases on cannot...
There was an unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
...Soviet Foreign Commissariat, the U.S. and British Embassies. They dropped in at the Lenin Library, the Botanical Gardens, the Park of Culture and Rest. On the Kamenny Bridge Premier Mikolajczyk heard the boom of cannon announcing a Red Army victory. Said he : "It makes more noise than the buzz bombs...
...certainly had. In four desperate months of the Battle of Malta, Buzz shot down 27 German flyers (total score...