Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits. As a moral force to counteract the Nazis' immoral force, it is a mere buzz. Another reason for the swift Nazi successes is made clearer: the Nazis found a moral vacuum, rushed in to fill it with a workable immorality. Europe could not save itself...
...Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven years...
...MacMillan had been with the Government before. Last year, first as $1-a-year timber expert, then as head of the Wartime Requirements Board, he cut through red tape like a buzz saw through a log. He studied Canada's lagging war effort, submitted a vast reorganization plan to Clarence D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply. But his methods were too direct; before his plan went through, he was eased out. Minister Howe said Mac Millan had been "sabotaged" by jealous politicians, that whenever the Government decided to give him a freer hand, Lumberman MacMillan would come back...
...Rhode Islanders scored 12 points, in ten minutes they scored 25. By half time (20 minutes), they led 42-10-28 - a new record for the Garden. In the second half, the Keaneymen, either overconfident or scared of their own feat, missed basket after basket. Nevertheless, at the final buzz they were still in front...
...destroyermen did not grieve long for the lost 50; they went discreetly, quietly after more. Last week-as Washington's bars began to buzz with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40 more "tin cans," to cost an average of $6,300,000 each. They will be paid for out of authorizations already made for the two-ocean programs. After previous contracts were awarded, there was still some tonnage left over. Navy men passed the word that the new building would slow...