Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are those patronizing or oversolicitous friends. "You always have to look 'on,' at the office," says Jane Bingham, 36, a Manhattan journalist who had a mastectomy in 1971. "I couldn't have a hangover or a cold or just feel rotten without people starting to buzz...
Future historians who study the congressional debates of 1974 will be amazed by the fury aroused in the American people by loud buzzing sounds. Responding to constituent pressure, the House last week completed congressional approval of a bill that will eliminate the interlock seat-belt system that prevented motorists from starting their cars unless seat belts were fastened -and that emitted a persistent and sometimes angry buzz as a reminder...
...manufacturers will stop making the systems, and motorists can legally have them disconnected. As a replacement, the legislation suggests that the government develop regulations for a three-point lap-and shoulder-belt system that can mildly chide nonusers by lighting a dashboard warning signal and sounding a one-shot buzz for a mere eight seconds-but that will not prevent any driver from starting the engine or unbuckling en route...
Then there is Michael Collins, the man most likely to be forgotten as the pilot of the Apollo 11 mother ship that circled the moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
...Charles Alan Wright, assured Judge Sirica, "This President does not defy the law. He will comply in full with the orders of this court." To Wright's embarrassment, two of the nine subpoenaed tapes then turned out to be "non-existent" and a third contained the celebrated 18½-minute buzz-filled erasure...