Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a placid repository, the office is soon expected to buzz with activity. The sole security guard will be joined by other watchmen. Offices are being spruced up, and five new microfilm readers are being installed. The cause of the upheaval is a yellowing collection of World War II dossiers that contain depositions, unproven allegations and intelligence reports on thousands of suspected and known German, Austrian, East European and Japanese war criminals. This week, after decades of neglect and limited access, the records will be made available to accredited scholars, researchers and journalists. Says Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's permanent representative...
...cities, Communist violence has become an everyday threat for policemen, politicians and even ordinary citizens. Lawyer Antonio Oposa used to ride his horse into the mottled green hills behind his house on the edge of Cebu. No more. "It's a no-man's-land," he says. "Army helicopters buzz here every morning." In February 1986 Oposa and his friends danced in the streets when Aquino came to power. Now they often sit around his comfortable home and complain about the way the country is run. The lawyer sometimes ends the discussions with rueful sarcasm: "Well, at least we have...
...still sleeping at his brother's feet, sleeping off the daybreak or maybe paralyzed from the South African toadskin the freaked-out hitchhiker passed off as Nirvana several thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped up reds-speed-and-Jack-Daniels buzz twisted, writhed and plummeted into the mellow blue-black of sweet Colombian dope and then, groggily, awoke into a bright new day of desert sunshine, cocaine and, lest we forget, as its undeniable, irrepressible tendrils finger their way into our minds, Queen Acid, begging, declaring, forcing us to recognize that...
...decided last week to assign 300 police officers to control the boisterous October 18 event--traditionally attended, according to Northeastern Coach Buzz Congram, by "drunken stumblebums...
...Cambridge campuses begin to buzz, local politicos are also shaking off the dog days...