Word: fuzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventh Day Adventist Church arrived in New York City last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded...
...National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...
Murder Around the Tree. Most of the second half is a good deal less feminine and less successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release...
...action of the climactic murder scene, with Mother Danforth's family gathered around the Christmas tree, is powerfully done, without a trace of fuzz on the pen or fog in the eye. Yet Miss Bolton's is a lyric, not a dramatic talent. Whenever she tries to speak through a character who is not her own kind and her own sex, she loses her firm tone of voice. But, speaking for herself, Author Bolton has much to say. She says it in a style which Mary Britton Miller should have tried sooner...
...Pointer" maps in a "serious study," terrain of undergraduate life at a "typical college," noting that morale at the civilian institution remains high, but that "the atmosphere is much loss formal." The cadet corps, which fancies one-inch haircuts tapering to a fuzz at the rear of the head, is also informed that many Amherst men also appear in crew cuts...