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Word: buzzer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Coffee Hour | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Smith was going up for a last layup when he was hit by three Tigers and a jump ball called with three seconds left to play. However, the jump was never made, as officials ruled the final buzzer had gone off but had been obscured by the noise of the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Tigers Narrowly Top Crimson Squad, 49-47 | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Bumptiously Yours. Slowly, painstakingly, the two agents planned a night ambush. Hidden guerrillas lay at vantage points on the road to the villa, a buzzer and torch flashes relayed warnings of the general's approach to the waiting kidnapers, who were in German uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Kidnap a General | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...pace of the game was so great at the end that the teams failed to hear the final buzzer until it rang for twenty seconds. When they did stop, the BC players whacked their sticks down on the ice with disappointment, and the Crimson squad mobbed goalie Johnny Chase, who played clearly the finest game of his career in the nets...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Upsets BC, 9-8; Chase Stars | 3/1/1950 | See Source »

...that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers of grey bread - bought in Belgrade for $15. No one answered the buzzer. There is no sense of service in a Communist state, because there exists no satisfaction in a job well done for the job's sake. There cannot be self-respect when only the state is respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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