Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday's football, Leverett's quarterback Bucky O'Connor and halfback Sandy Batchelder stood out in the Bunnie's win. In the second quarter, O'Connor passed from Dudley's 37-yard line to right end Buzz Smyth for the first touchdown...
Though the show has its own pseudo-scientific lingo and its own slang ("Shootin' rockets!" "What in the universe!"), Moser borrows from older art forms. "Like any cowboy hero, Buzz Corry is above sex," he explains. "He never kisses anything but the cold nose of his space ship." Moser has also put a taboo on cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face...
Steel-muscled Commander Buzz Corry of Space Patrol (Sat. 11 a.m., ABC-TV) has spent the past 2½ years policing outer space for the United Planets of the Universe, a sort of 30th century U.N. Last week, on a routine space cruise, Corry was only mildly surprised to encounter a ship flying the Jolly Roger. He promptly boarded the pirate craft and disarmed the villainous crew. Villains are usually packed off to the U.P. Medical Science Center where, after a brainwashing, they become as true-blue and noble-souled as Corry himself...
Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin stood at the rostrum reading the 1952 Republican platform. A buzz of conversation rose from the convention floor, and the aisles were filled with milling delegates. Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, accustomed to a high degree of buzz-buzz while platforms are being read, decided that this was too much. He whacked down his big wooden gavel and shouted: "The convention will please come to order. This is an important document . . . The delegates should at least know what they're going to vote on in a few minutes...
...summer these roads buzz with traffic -for horses and horse farms, with their lush pastures, white fences, parklike woods and columned manors, are the state's chief tourist attraction...