Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After whirling like a buzz saw through the first round of a lightweight fight in New Orleans, Challenger Joe Brown, a 30-year-old ex-carpenter, broke his right hand and slowed down to some careful jabs and hooks, had Champion Wallace ("Bud") Smith, 27, out on his feet in the 15th, won a split decision and the lightweight championship of the world...
...driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings that crown the surrounding hills. Soon the flowered apartment terraces ring with the pleasant tinkle of ice cubes and buzz to the languid chitchat of the cocktail hour...
...President Eisenhower get the right operation for his ileitis? What are his chances of regaining sufficiently good health to serve in the presidency for four more years? Politics aside, these questions have been the basis of bee-buzz conversations over cigarettes and coffee in many hospitals or medical-centers' common room since the President's operation (TIME, June 18). Neither can be answered with the kind finality that marked the first bulletins after Ike's operation...
Once Peggy Nelson had set the ball rolling, bureau consultants helped Snoqualmie's townspeople organize 18 study committees with memberships ranging from bankers to lumberjacks. Each group diagnosed a Snoqualmie ailment. When one of the innumerable "buzz sessions" established that Peggy's pond and the town's irksome high-water level rose and fell together, an improvement district was organized, and a $12,000 drainage ditch eliminated both health hazards. As the study committees pinpointed other problems, action groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were...
...those sentimentally pretty pollywogs in a Disney cartoon, hastens to roll her eyes soulfully and explain that she is just not good enough for the young man any more. "Ay ham deefrawnt.'' Fortunately, all this takes place during World War II in London, and a buzz-bomb soon comes along to simplify the situation. It pounds some sense into the heroine's head, to judge from the script, but it only leaves the spectator in a daze...