Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should take about ten minutes. The most breathtaking moment will occur when Nelson threads his way past Solar Max's 7-ft.-long solar panels, which are slicing through space like slow-motion helicopter blades (the satellite rotates once every 6 min.). If Nelson can dodge this orbital buzz saw without incident, he will try to halt Solar Max's spin...
...Henry Aaron, Darrell Evans, and Dave Johnson all hit 40 homers in 1973. Ralph Garr won the 1974 batting title by hitting .353, and Buzz Capra was the ERA champ in 1974 with a neat 2.210 mark...
When cocktail-party chatter turns to investments these days, it frequently contains a new buzz word: zeros. Short for zero-coupon bonds, the term refers to certificates that pay no interest for a decade or more but then mature into whopping sums. In just 18 months since the bonds were introduced, Wall Street brokerage firms have sold more than $30 billion. Says Katherine Reed, a bond analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Zeros are really the rage...
...flap this bug with gilded wings, thus painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet , and beauty ne'er enjoys. --Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
...Tommy's can actually help my concentration; it may not be the clean, well-lighted place of my dreams, but on a sunny. Thursday afternoon it can be rather pleasant indeed, with its homincss, its, unique personal touches, its tireless staff and its familiar "regulars." It has the unkillable buzz of a life which no institution can eradicate, of a life which extends far beyond the classrooms of Harvard into the city itself, and is echoed too in the pages of the Riverside Shakespeare which I hold before me as I mark my exams...