Word: abuzz
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...away rapidly. We went back to our mussels and linguine, and then back to our lousy undergraduate education. He went back to Tufts, where the streets are paved with gold and everybody knows your name. And I forgot about him—until last week, when Harvard was set abuzz by a few choice words from Tufts Dean Charles Inouye...
During one of these nights, The Loop went to a game at Shea between the Mets and the Rockies. Aileen was there, too. We were all abuzz over the spraying going on in nearby Flushing Meadows Park. One member of our merry band, Brian, was particularly spooked. He feared that the row of bleacher seats beneath us that the Mets had blocked off had something to do with West Nile or the spraying. And, believe it or not, we all started to believe...
...Director Louis Freeh announced Tuesday he was stepping down from his post of 8 years. While Freeh is looking forward to spending time with his family and fielding lucrative offers from the private sector, Washington is abuzz with speculation as to his successor...
...summer of 1954, air-crew briefing rooms at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport were abuzz with reports of construction at an air base near Sanya, a town at the southern tip of China's Hainan island. To date, the runway had been all bitumen, a surface suited to propeller aircraft but given to melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view...
While most Harvard students have registered, and the majority of those interviewed say they plan to vote, dining halls have been less than abuzz with pre-election excitement...