Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news bulletins ceased to come, people felt a little lost. For nine-and twelve-hour periods in Oregon and Washington, various but generally shorter spells in California, nothing at all could be tuned in on many sets during daytime but a blank buzz. This tribulation was imposed by order of the coastal Interceptor Commands. Reason: carrier-based enemy planes could have flown in above the weather, found military objectives by triangulating on radio broadcasts from commercial stations...
...House was in an ugly mood. From the floor came the angry buzz of milling, wrangling men. Majority Leader John W. McCormack tried to line up votes he knew were not there. After four months, Leon Henderson's price-control bill was getting the works...
Zero hour came at 3:59 p.m. on the second day of the debate. A buzz of nervous conversation swept through the galleries, over the floor, died. The House was still with the dead silence of excitement, for the Representatives did not know what outcome to expect: the vote might overturn the Administration's foreign policy...
Harvard scored in every period, while their opponents were only able to break through in the final quarter. Early in the battle, center forward Buzz Sawhill tallied for the first time. In the final chapter he closed the book with the sixth goal...
...nervous rattle and whine that cut through the smoky air was sad music to Oregon lumberjacks. It meant that the long, clear cry of "Timberrrr!" would soon ring out no more in the stillness of the forest-it would be drowned by the din of a mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan...