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Word: buzzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voices on the tapes. Now he can pick Nixon's and other voices out of the tangles. He is fascinated that the President becomes starkly coherent when he is angry, at other times lapses into mushy talk. John Dean has a voice that cuts through like a buzz saw -evenly, consistently. Haldeman and Ehrlichman talk of people as if they were numbers, totally expendable. Mezvinsky strains to pick up a strand of concern for the national interest among these men. They talk about saving themselves, each other, about "modified limited hangout," about p.r. "But they never mention what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: We Cannot Run Away | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

HEAVY METAL. So named because of the massive banks of amplifiers, drums and loudspeakers employed by Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. The music is pure buzz -heavy, simplistic blues played at maximum volume and wallowed in mostly by young teen-agers just experimenting with marijuana, the lingua franca of rock, and perhaps hard drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faces in the Crowd | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...therapy, music therapy and antidrinking seminars but are also allowed one or two ounces of pure alcohol (ethanol) once an hour on the hour, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., simply by asking for it. If he drinks the allowable maximum every hour, a patient can achieve a considerable buzz by 9 p.m. More important, 13 times every day he must make a conscious decision: to drink or not to drink. In a follow-up study of their first group, Gottheil and his associates claim that, after six months, approximately half of the group members were either dry or drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alcoholism: New Victims, New Treatment | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Nearly five years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Sea of Tranquility, many questions about the moon remain unanswered. Indeed, some scientists feel that they may never completely learn the origin and history of the earth's immediate neighbor. Yet as a result of painstaking analysis of the 838 Ibs. of lunar rocks and the wealth of data collected by six Apollo crews, a fundamental understanding of the moon as well as of the early years of the earth is now finally beginning to emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Moon | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...After finishing he began to walk toward the gate of the cemetery. "Aren't we even going to wait until the body's buried?" I asked him almost gleefully. I had never seen a burial. No, he answered, it was time for dinner. By now there was a noticeable buzz in my head. We set back for the church, so that the padre could get rid of his vestment...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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