Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss on many issues. Once when Jones congratulated Meany for selling an increase in the investment tax credit on Capitol Hill, Meany said: "Hell, the trouble with you business guys is that you talk about 'capital formation.' What you should be talking about is 'job formation' because those are buzz words to Congressmen...
...talks with Carter, Jones uses the right buzz words. If businessmen are going to risk money to create jobs, he says, they have to earn better than the current 4% real return on investment, which is way down from the almost 10% of the mid-1960s...
Many of the locals are upset by the prospect. A human voice at the end of the line instead of an electronic buzz has heightened Avalon's sense of community. A direct-dial system means no more neighborly gossip and no more baby announcements over the phone. People used to ask questions like "Where can I reach Lucy's sister?" or "How long do you broil a steak?" Now they will have to go elsewhere for the answers...
...Buzz Tarlow...
Doing things "proper Iron Age" became the commune's buzz words. A sieve made out of animal hair was allowed-the Celts might have devised it. But when John Rossetti made a chair, Percival destroyed it. Says he: "It was too early to have thought up such a thing." Martin Elphick, a doctor from Kent, pursued primitive medicine, treating flu with violet and willow bark, headaches with valerian root, and asthma with deadly nightshade. The Iron Agers developed their own dyes, appletree bark for yellow, the yew tree for orange, lichens for brown and green...