Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities and insistent crusader for more women in good political jobs. At the national convention in Chicago last year, she berated the restive delegates for being "extremely rude" to speakers, and then she seized the chairman's gavel and banged the hall into silence when the buzz of conversation began to drown out her own speech. Some Democrats had a name for indomitable India: "The Tugboat Annie of politics...
...Long Island Jewish Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The Royalcall works on the radio principle, broadcasting coded impulses to tiny (11-oz.), transistor-equipped receivers, which each staff doctor carries in his pocket. Beamed from a central transmitter, the impulses cause the particular receiver to buzz. The doctor then uses the house phone to learn where he is needed. Cost of the transmitter: $4,000; receivers: $170 each...
Before the week was out, the buzz-buzz in Ohio was amplified to a crescendo by another tidbit: Governor Lausche flew from Washington to Seattle in the presidential plane with Dwight Eisenhower. Surely, the pundits reasoned, the President and the governor talked about what everyone else in Ohio was talking about. Suppose they came to an agreement...
...Popular Science Monthly, which in the past has taught readers "how to" do everything from making a diving lung to training a seal, ran a 3-D section on how to run a buzz saw, deliberately left out the 3-D glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames...
That old melodrammer The Perils of Marianne went into a new chapter last week. With France being sucked into the buzz saw of bankruptcy, strikes threatening the mortgage on the old homestead, Premier René Mayer had one of those ideas which come only to topflght scenarists and agile politicians. Picking up the transatlantic telephone, he asked Washington: What about a Big Three international conference? The answer was: it's on the way (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...