Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months passed, the university began to buzz. Baker persuaded the legislature to give him enough money to double his plant. He built two spanking new dormitories, new chemistry and engineering buildings, an indoor swimming pool, a health center, an astronomy laboratory-seven new buildings in all. He spent nearly $1,000,000 streamlining the older buildings from top to bottom, planting clumps of shrubbery, restoring turf to the lawns. Partly because of the G.I. bill, but perhaps as much because of John Baker, university enrollments more than tripled...
...Buzz, Buzz. When the Security Council met that afternoon at Lake Success, everyone buzzed busily along the air-conditioned corridors. The chief conjecture: Russia might be about to back the North Koreans openly. But Jacob Malik merely charged that the affair was one more "provocation" by U.S. "warmongers." In Moscow the next day, Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base...
...Western Europe's coal and steel industries. To most of the delegates it means the practical beginning of an undertaking which in the past has been little more than an oratorical flourish: Western Europe's union. But above the hopeful voices in Paris was audible a disturbing buzz-the voice of doctrinaire Socialism...
Green has not named his pitching choice yet, but it is probable that Spike Gerwin, who went all the way against Penn, will start. Tom Turner, John Maloney, and Buzz Hammer, three capable relief men, will be held in reserve...
...Buzzer. When Charles Sawyer took over, he quickly earned the nickname "Buzz" by keeping his aides hopping to answer his buzzer. He sent out a memo: "There will be no smoking in the Secretary's office or at conferences with the Secretary." That was distressing news to Commerce's economists, who love their ancient, richly caked pipes. It also set the tone for his administration: cordiality but no intimacy. Charles Sawyer lost no time in getting into affairs on a level above the merely administrative...