Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...briefings took effect. "Washington is a-buzz," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, "with the talk of the 'disastrous failure' of the Dulles foreign policy in the Middle East." "It is generally conceded here that the Soviet Union and Egypt have scored a tremendous victory," the New York Times's James Reston reported nonsensically. In a piece called "The Kremlin's Shattering Triumph," Joseph and Stewart Alsop ranted: "Even among the Administration policymakers the almost hysterical emotions generated by pique against the British and French are now beginning to subside." Two days...
LOCKHEED F-104, the U.S. Air Force's hottest jet fighter, is working out so well that Air Force is boosting orders, possibly by as much as $200 million. Airmen buzz that needle-nosed ship, already a Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) performer, has done close to Mach 3 or nearly 2,000 m.p.h...
...overlooking the lazy River Lahn, lives a storm center of European Protestantism. Rudolf Karl Bultmann, 72, napping in his book-crammed study or limping through his grounds with his wife and daughter, does not look like an intellectual tornado. But in Germany, where ideas are apt to detonate like buzz bombs, sending shock waves through university faculties, student cafés and editorial rooms, the ideas of Rudolf Bultmann have set off a major furor...
...doctor's late patients complained that they left him too much money when they died. The police received notes, sometimes anonymous, even suggesting-without any facts-that he had hastened their deaths. They ordered an inquest on one of the patients (verdict: suicide) and, as the buzz of gossip rose, called in Scotland Yard...
BOEING JETLINERS will probably be bought by Britain's BOAC and other Commonwealth airlines. Boeing is in line to get order for 17 planes from BOAC, another three from South African Airways to add to seven jets recently sold Australia's Qantas Empire Airways. Rumors also buzz that Boeing will get order for 19 more 707s from Howard Hughes's Trans World Airlines, which has already ordered eight...