Word: buzzes
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...Marquis and Marquise walked through the sunny streets of Oizon last week, their hands clasped, looking neither right nor left, the villagers continued to buzz and whisper. It was the last time they would ever see the Marquis and Marquise...
...light-plane field World War I Planemaker Morane-Saulnier has built a sleek, four-place light jet called the Paris which can buzz along at 400 m.p.h. serve either as a military liaison plane or a highspeed executive transport. Though only one prototype has been built, U.S. Light-Plane-Maker Beechcraft, no novice in the field, is so impressed with the Paris that it is showing it around the U.S., will build for flying businessmen if there are enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington...
...Firebee carries a collection of electronic "black boxes" that do almost as well. It can fly under automatic controls, or it can be flown by radio from a distance. It can make a gunnery run on a real airplane as if a human pilot were on board. It can buzz in curves like a June bug, giving the pilot who tries to attack it a simulated dogfight. When posing as a bomber, it can carry radar-reflecting devices that make it look like a large airplane on the radarscope...
...final budget to $50 million, and the military men who came around to inspect rose from majors to colonels to generals. Among other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
Older and wiser now, Blackstone has replaced four-footed animals with blondes and brunettes who obligingly allow him to stab and dismember them, or occasionally to lock them in coflins. The most eager of his helpers lies on a table where, in full view, a buzz saw runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...