Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Test. A crucial proving ground for Phase III will be the lumber industry, which has lately been buzz-sawed into chaos by rising demand and falling supplies. Industry leaders complain that they have been prevented from keeping up with demand because, among other things, too many firms had hit their Phase II ceilings on profit margins and thus could not legally enjoy the higher profit rates that frequently come with expanded sales. Phase III regulations provide for price increases "necessary for efficient allocation of resources" but say nothing about letting companies increase their profit margins by using the same excuse...
...restless, indefatigable man with a flair for statistics and corporate buzz words, Ash is similar to McNamara in many ways. He is an immaculate "clean-desk" administrator who reads three papers a day, believes that everything can be solved when all the facts are known, and has little patience with men who do not perform. He has little time for small talk and even less for social pretension-he still drives to work in a station wagon and wears shiny California suits. The father of five, Ash once applied his business instincts to a long family vacation in Europe...
Compulsion. Some astronauts were less affected by their trips in space than by the acclaim afterward. When he returned from the first lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong's moon-walking companion, found himself totally unequipped to play the hero's role during the countless public appearances required of him. Soon he was on his way to what he now calls "a good old-fashioned American nervous breakdown." In contrast, other astronauts seem to have taken full advantage of the acclaim: John Glenn made a run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Wally Schirra appeared as a commentator...
...great black halfback. Levi Jackson, he rejoiced. "Thank heavens, my name isn't Jackson Levi." But in 1971 when Skull and Bones tapped Yale's present hot shot half back. Dick Jauron, who broke Jackson's all-time rushing record two weeks ago, Jauron told Skull and Bones to buzz off. "They don't even have a pinball machine, for Chrissake," he explained. Traditions are crumbling all over the Ivy League. Brown won a game last week. Yale and Dartmouth should put the Bruins back in the groove over the next two weeks, however. Yale...
Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...