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Word: buzzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. President, Buzz, et al. | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...side of the Boat Club. Many a wounded scull has been repaired there, but the story is told of one eight, whose remains can still be seen in the Boat Club, which ran up the ramp into the shop in a fog and got sawed in half on the buzz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 360 Rowers Daily Use Building College Neither Owns nor Rents | 8/21/1942 | See Source »

...since the first Manhattan performances of Parsifal (in 1903) had there been such a buzz of American anticipation over a piece of music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

There is no known way to make war cozy, but publishers and popular novelists have done their best to enable summering readers to go to war in a hammock. These five novels are some of their doings. One is a worthy, serious book. Some are a mere buzz. All are easy hot-weather reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Go to War in a Hammock | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...money Russ deserves as much credit as Colin Kelly or Buzz Wagner. "Going out in a blaze of glory" has a new meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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