Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters, a modest suite in a loft building on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There was no bonfire outside, no vast crowd roaring to celebrate. The phones, which used to jangle out returns long before the Election Board received any official figures, uttered only an occasional mild buzz...
Everette "Buzz" Buskirk, 4-43, Indiana University and Remington of that state. He played with a Chicago orchestra, and joined the Navy in November, 1941, serving a year at the Naval Air Station in Alaska before receiving his commission. He claims music as his business, and can teach any instrument; although playing the trombone for the band. He also played for a USO troupe show before joining...
...butt in an ashtray nor a buzz on the phone...
...have read your issue of Dec. 14 with great interest but we believe we have discovered an error in your story of Lieut. Colonel "Buzz" Wagner in which you state that he was (at 26) the youngest officer of his rank in the Army. Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson of Santaquin, Utah is his junior by four years. Lieut. Colonel Peterson, former leader of the American Eagle Squadron, is now stationed in England with the A.A.F. AVIATION CADET J. A. LOWRY AVIATION CADET J. A. LINDQUIST...
...removal of land mines is the sort of horrifying job that defies description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...