Word: buzzes
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...radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...
...only took a couple of beers, and we were gone. Gone not to that pleasurably surreal universe of Mr. Buzz Jones, but rather to that unsettling realm of baseball reminiscence, that warped and pipe-dream world of great teams and players of years gone...
After a while, though, the conversation, just like that pleasant buzz that inevitably turns into cotton mouth, couldn't help but come back to the present...
...effortlessly to the Mets. For the first time since I've been here, someone else broached the subject for me. I leisurely went to the fridge for another cold one, kicking over an ashtray and a half-full bottle of Bud. I was trying to stay cool but my buzz was getting the better...
...morning, cotton mouth had replaced Buzz Jones, and I dimly remembered some parts of the last night's conversation. Picking up the New York Times, I mechanically found the sports page. The Mets had dropped a heart breaker to the Expos in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Something pulled desperately in my stomach, and I headed for an extended prayer session with the great porcelain...