Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Children's toys and clothes litter the huts, bicycles lean carelessly against back walls, stew cakes in pots, crumpled bed sheets still bear the impress of daily life. But in the now deserted streets, no men chatter. No women call to their children. No chickens squawk. No insects buzz. "The silence is so deep," whispers a visitor to a relief worker. "I try not to listen," the medic responds. Yet it is all but impossible not to hear the echoes of the tragedy...
...Americans use computer terminals in their jobs, and about one-third of these people are being scrutinized as they work. Since the number of terminal users is expected to triple by the end of the decade, computer monitoring may be on its way to becoming the next big management buzz word...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...
...long-term strategies such as the Reagan Doctrine and Star Wars --have evoked mixed reactions abroad. Denis Healey, the British Labor Party's most prominent spokesman on foreign policy, has continually protested global unilateralism in so many words. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, sensing a new buzz word in the Esperanto of Uncle Sam bashing, denounced the U.S. for "neoglobalism." At the same time, public remonstrations from the chancelleries of Europe and elsewhere have often been modulated with whispered encouragement to Washington to keep up the good work. The point about global unilateralism, however, is not whether others...
...will be one of those lazy tropical afternoons when interest in the case has waned, and the flies buzz and the guards doze in the heat, that Charles Sobhraj will make his move." That prediction, made in 1979 in a best-selling book, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, became reality last week. During an impromptu "birthday party" with his jailers at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi, Sobhraj plied seven officials and guards with drugged sweets, tied them up, then sped away in a waiting car with six fellow inmates...