Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, in the somber, paneled office in Tokyo's DaiIchi Building once occupied by Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Ridgway had directed the moves, as cool and poised as a duelist. Outside his office, the busy buzzers and flashing lights resembled a pinball machine. At every flash or buzz, an aide shot into action...
Opportunity? The world promptly started to buzz with truce talks. In Oslo, where he was vacationing, U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie delightedly and uncritically pounced on the Malik statement. Said Lie: "The first step . . . must be a cease-fire." The "ceasefire should involve only the military arrangements necessary to stop the fighting and to insure against its renewal . . . The political issues involved . . . can then be appropriately discussed in the competent organs...
Sipping a drink in the bar of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, Richard Usborne caught this strange snatch of conversation from a nearby table. He lost the rest of it in the buzz of barroom talk. That was in May 1941. In the next ten years, the world fought the bloodiest war in its history, the British Empire nearly went down to defeat, the King David Hotel (bar included) was badly damaged by a terrorist bomb. But Richard Usborne, an advertising man, never stopped worrying about what could possibly be the story behind that lion...
Eliot looked like a sure winner as the ball game opened. Behind Buzz Vonderlage's pitching, the Elephants took four quick runs in the first inning. As the second inning began, so did the rains, and the next four innings were played at a slow pace through...
Stanley Clifford Weyman, a sad-looking, smooth-talking man of 60, blended into the fuzz-buzz edges of Lake Success as easily as any of that strange new tribe of international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular...