Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story has a catchy beginning: "Ferocious swarms of man-killing bees are buzzing their way toward North America." The second curt paragraph fairly shouts in terror: "They have already smashed their way through Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru." Lest the tension become unbearable, a third paragraph offers relief: "But don't panic. It may take ten to 14 years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with...
Another major conclusion of the panel was that the 18-minute section of tape "probably contained speech originally." The evidence for this is that the scientists found three tiny "windows" on the tape?minute sections in which the buzz did not appear. Although undetectable by an untrained ear, they found in each of the windows "a fragment of speechlike sound lasting less than one second." These sections apparently were missed by the erase head in the multiple manipulations of whoever tampered with the tape. Bolt explained that the assumption that speech underlies the entire buzz is basically "a statistical argument...
...when called as a witness by Ben-Veniste. He did not recall who had asked him to bring the tape along. Nor did he remember whether Miss Woods had wanted it so she could continue transcribing from it?even though, according to her testimony, she had already discovered a buzz on the tape...
...Dylan's return, illuminated by the slow flicker of thousands of matches, the old spirit seems to emerge anew. At each concert, the hush of anticipation, the buzz of uncertainty and the applause of recognition are extensions of young people again listening to his words and looking for their meaning. Arms linked together, swaying in unison, chanting in time to the psychic current, a generation's anthem- learned in adolescence, sung in protest but not finally understood until periods of adult crisis-is being sung once more...
...tainted lawyers-suggests that the legal profession has not been notably successful in preventing ethical lapses. Nor has it policed itself very vigorously. Said one disgusted delegate to the American Bar Association's annual meeting last summer: "The time is upon us, gentlemen, to belly up to the buzz saw and do something about this...