Word: underbuzz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banana (tied on a string around her neck) and wistfully described the Chunky bar she had eaten for lunch. Most of the other women in the room stared into mirrors, ratting hair, applying pancake, and blowing up balloons in the empty stretches of time, all over a continual underbuzz of conversation. Three men on the far side of a partition went through a similar, if quieter process. One man paced between the two make-shift rooms, alternately blowing up a green balloon and giving instructions. Every ten minutes or so he yelled out a Cape-Canavral countdown...
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