Word: buzzer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...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...
...Buzzer. When Charles Sawyer took over, he quickly earned the nickname "Buzz" by keeping his aides hopping to answer his buzzer. He sent out a memo: "There will be no smoking in the Secretary's office or at conferences with the Secretary." That was distressing news to Commerce's economists, who love their ancient, richly caked pipes. It also set the tone for his administration: cordiality but no intimacy. Charles Sawyer lost no time in getting into affairs on a level above the merely administrative...
...Buzzing? Suddenly a buzzer rasped in the vault room. The leader looked at Cashier Lloyd. "He said, 'Who is it?' I said it's probably the night mechanic. He said, 'What'll happen if you don't let him in?' I said he'd probably think something was wrong." The robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash...
...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...