Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only took a couple of beers, and we were gone. Gone not to that pleasurably surreal universe of Mr. Buzz Jones, but rather to that unsettling realm of baseball reminiscence, that warped and pipe-dream world of great teams and players of years gone...
During dinner, when the King spoke, all was silent; my comments were drowned in a buzz of conversation. The silences for the King heightened my awareness of Faisal's standard speech. Its basic proposition was that Jews and Communists were working now in parallel, now together, to undermine the civilized world as we knew...
...story is nostalgia updated. The reader is given a tale of a time long ago, but gently prodded to make sense of it in a modern context. Yet despite the fact that Freeman has our values and knows the same literary buzz words we do, she succeeds in re-creating an era on its own terms--an era for which Freud had no answers, when a young lady's unchaperoned absence raised eyebrows, and when Easter egg hunts were actually...
...Prize in physics. It also developed the laser, high-fidelity phonograph records, stereo and sound movies. In 1927, Bell Labs demonstrated the first long-distance, live, television transmission over wires. One of its early computers helped direct antiaircraft fire during World War II and knocked down 76% of Nazi buzz bombs in areas it defended in England. Bell scientists pioneered work in semiconductors, integrated circuits and microchips, all necessary parts of the computer explosion. They have now won a total of seven Nobel Prizes in physics...
...other Communists. Despite his reputation as a pragmatist and a reformer, Deng realizes as clearly as Grličkov that for a Communist, pragmatism and reform must end where genuine pluralism and power-sharing begin. On that point, Deng and Brezhnev are still comrades. Of all the buzz words in the Marxist lexicon, none is more telling than "struggle." It is Marxism, both the theory and the practice, stripped to its essence. What distinguishes the Soviet prototype of Communism is the ingenious and terrible way that the struggle to prevail against all challenges has been institutionalized throughout society...