Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buzz Schneider knocked in two goals for the Americans, who regained a first place tie with Sweden in the Olympic Hockey's Blue Division. The U.S. will meet the West Germans on Wednesday night...
BillBaker of the University of Minnesota scored the tying goal off a Buzz Schneider pass. Earlier, Boston University star Dave Silk had tallied for the American...
...crowded chamber that had witnessed such historic events as Soviet shoe banging and papal appeals for peace, there was no perceptible change in the low buzz of conversation. But everyone there knew that the Soviet Union had just been publicly rebuked by those nations of the world that it had professed to champion. It was Moscow's most spectacular diplomatic humiliation since the U.N. condemnation of the invasion of Hungary...
...thick with devalued buzz words, including "buzz words." Behavioral science, always a leader in the euphemism derby, has cut some gems and polished some others: psychologists persistently refer to unresponsive women as "preorgasmic," and Masters and Johnson call foreplay a "stimulative approach opportunity," perhaps the most effective sexual turn-off since saltpeter. Therapists speak of "actualizing," to mean the fulfillment of potential. "I hear you" has descended from the aural to the banal; it means a total understanding of the speaker's temperament. "Lifing" is the effort to derive the utmost from every day; "Who are you screaming with...
...truth. I run it. It works. I should feel happy, ecstatic, even proud. Mostly I feel drained. I want to tell someone but I am afraid of unnerving them, especially the girl in the next room, whose breathing--long, deep, frustrated sighs-- is audible even among the respirator buzz of the terminals. So I turn to the comrade next to me and whisper "That's it... I just finished." He says "good for you," without looking...