Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George F. ("Buzz") Beurling, 26, Canada's leading wartime ace (28 Axis planes in 14 fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
Capra made a few passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew...
...Buzz Sawhill, Jayvee coach last fall, is tentatively scheduled to guide the soccer team's drills with the assistance of 1947 captain Hunt Mavor. Next fall's captain, Phil Potter, injured his lung while playing in New York this winter and may not be able to participate actively until September...
Outside, the lonely pastoral scene grew dark. People began to leave. In one corner of the visitors' gallery, a pair of earphones lying on a chair continued to buzz. The translator's voice, like some angry insect, was a reminder that to carry physical communication to the edge of the perfect did not advance understanding, much less agreement...
...Houston scored the only goal of the game in 10:50 of the third period. On an adjoining field the Jayvee soccer team was shut out, 4 to 0, for Saturday's single athletic loss by the Springfield College junior Varsity in the final game of the year for Buzz Sawhill's team...