Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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European automen are sure that Flick yearns to grow still bigger. They buzz that he is working toward a merger with a major French or Italian automaker to dominate the car industry in the European Common Market. He has had Daimler buy preferred shares that can be converted into 5% of Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal...
From the moment Nikita Khrushchev got his invitation to the U.S. safely in his pocket, all the secret sessions, working teas, buzz and bustle of Geneva became a show without an audience. "There is no one left in the grandstands." sighed a Western diplomat sadly. For the time being at least, the three Western foreign ministers seemed to have no more standing as policymakers than Andrei Gromyko himself. Gromyko even refused to accept Secretary Herter's mild suggestion that the foreign ministers resume talking when the U.N. General Assembly opens next month...
Diners near the bandstand could hear the squeal of the buzz mute being fitted into the bell of the horn. The pudgy little man with the wispy mustache lifted the tarnished trumpet, looked right to the piano player, back to the drummer. Then Trumpeter Jonah Jones patted out two measures with a soft left foot and took the first three pickup notes of I Could Have Danced All Night...
Conferring with helicopter people, Raytheon's scientists concluded that a sky station will have to leave the earth under ordinary chemical power and buzz its way up to the spot where the power beams come to a focus. Then its microwave-fueled engine will take over. Test prototypes will carry a human crew, but later models will be automatic. Once they have been maneuvered into the focal spot, they will be kept there by electronic devices which sense when they are beginning to drift out of it. If the supporting beam fails, the station will drift down gently, supported...
...army system, and utilized most recently in Korea, the "biggest thing of its kind in U.S. records" meant a great deal to him. "I am very proud to have been in on it," he says, recalling even today the tension of London under V-2 fire and buzz bomb attacks. He emphasizes the loneliness felt by each individual in combat, alone in a foxhole or behind a solitary bush, and relates that he then learned how difficult the piecing together of history actually...