Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told its readers about an extraordinary show that opens in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week: Evangelist Billy Graham's crusade for New York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied by Graham's advance men and those on Sunday...
...food for a day. In the evening he offers it a doctored fly-one that he has killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider runs out, sinks its fangs into the fly and greedily sucks up its content of schizophrenic serum. Then Dr. Bercel destroys the spider...
...West TV tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect game before the cameras (he has come within one strike twice), Campi stands to win $100,000. Bowling against him at Ft. Worth were such other old pros as Detroit's Buzz Fazio and Steve Nagy, veterans of a quarter-century of bowling...
...postpone the "least essential" one-fourth of the pork-barrel projects. But Douglas knew what would happen. "History is repeating itself," he said in wry tones. "Every time I rise to criticize the rivers and harbors bill, a perfect swarm of hornets descends upon me, and the questions buzz...
Quicker than a hornet could buzz, Douglas' fellow liberal Democrats, including Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Richard Neuberger, deserted him. "Let me be blunt about the matter, and say that I am not sure which quarter the President would postpone," Humphrey said plaintively. He read off a list of Minnesota projects, then added: "They are a part of a quarter that I do not want the President to touch." With equal candor, Neuberger admitted: "On this bill I happen to be 'stuck,' . . . God Almighty put a great deal of water [in Oregon...