Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trundled it on the field and a crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Kingsley Wood, who was an able administrator until, as Air Secretary, he got caught in the buzz saw of plane production...
...editorial devoted to Sendak, the "Elkhart Indiana Truth" said: "Sendak sounds like a very wise young man--but after he has come into contact with the buzz-saw of Indiana politics, he will be a lot wiser in the ways of human nature than he will ever be from his studies at Harvard...
...Muggeridge proceeds, his cold sickness about his own country gradually takes on power, the buzz of his crowding details mounts to a kind of hymn. Such fury may be a purging force. Certainly no piece of writing has yet made more vivid the last few ominous years for Britain: "Their world was passing away-London, that great city. None could revive it, none stay the process of disintegration. Feet treading, found no foothold; arms reaching, no guiding wall or comforting pillar found; mind thinking, nothing grasped. All was dissolving. Lost! lost! in the darkness of change...
Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...