Word: buzzes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final budget to $50 million, and the military men who came around to inspect rose from majors to colonels to generals. Among other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
Older and wiser now, Blackstone has replaced four-footed animals with blondes and brunettes who obligingly allow him to stab and dismember them, or occasionally to lock them in coflins. The most eager of his helpers lies on a table where, in full view, a buzz saw runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...
Just for the fun of it one bright December morning in 1931, Pilot Officer Bader decided to buzz the officers' club at Woodley Aerodrome near Reading, rolled into the turf, and lost both legs as a result of the crash. But after eight difficult years spent learning to move skillfully on a pair of artificial legs, he was back in the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, and during World War II Squadron Leader Bader personally accounted for 22½-German planes. His career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach...
Even to optimists, the U.S. proposals for an international atomic agency often seemed like little more than a buzz of oratory. Last week the U.S. produced the goods. Before the U.N., Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. made a bare announcement: the U.S. has allocated 100 kilo grams (220 Ibs.) of fissionable material to be distributed to atomic "have not" nations as fuel for experimental reactors...
...Dave feels the crowd with him and if his psyche is in good order, a unique event takes place. The rhythm seems to take hold of everybody in the room. Drummer Dodge feels it and starts to bang on his Chinese cymbal (an instrument studded with loose rivets that buzz like a dozen sizzling steaks), and his bass drum whaps out compulsively, unpredictably. Bates hunches closer to his bass. Desmond, his lips without their mouthpiece looking like a nearsighted man's eyes without his spectacles, moves quietly away from the piano. Brubeck seems to cut his ties with...