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Word: buzzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flight Lieut. George ("Buzz") Beurling, D.S.O., D.F.C., D.F.M. and bar, was through with fighting Germans. Now he meant to fly for China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: No More Fun | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

London was still being scourged by buzz-bombs, but Allied airpower was smiting the Germans with greater force, the Germans were close to rout on the Russian front, being mauled without letup in Italy. Even though there was a stalemate on the Normandy front it was a time for rejoicing by Britain, which had once stood alone against the Axis. It was also a time to tell the world that the British Empire was still the Empire. Said Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indomitable | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Buzz tone strictly kazoo, says Dick Stabile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down Beat's Tenth | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Stenciled in white on the wings of Nazi buzz-bombs are the words Nicht anfassen (Don't Touch). Britons heartily agree. But some men for professional reasons must get almost within touching distance. "Doc" Salomon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Don't Touch | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...American, was studio manager for Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Don't Touch | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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