Word: buzzing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defeat contained many of the elements of his great September victory. Then he was holding the Pusan perimeter with a force that was numerically inferior to the enemy. When talk of an impending offensive began to buzz around, military analysts called it rash. They said that MacArthur did not have nearly as many men as he needed...
...Kiss a Buzz Saw. Throughout, Wu never recognized the fact that the forces in Korea under attack by his master were United Nations forces. In fact, Wu demanded that the U.N. apply "severe sanctions" against the U.S. for sending troops to Korea. He demanded that U.N. force an American "withdrawal" from Korea and Formosa* (i.e., turn both over to the Reds). Whether the U.N. did so or not, militant Red China, leading all Asia, would chase off "U.S. aggressors...
...words, however, left no basis for hope that Mao could be dealt with, reassured or weaned away from Moscow. To think of appeasing the master of the rasping, threatening Wu was to think of kissing a buzz saw. What stood revealed after two hours at Lake Success was naked military force...
...Desk. About the time Hoyle and Lyttleton reached this point of their reasoning, World War II put cosmology i ice. Both young mathematicians went into war work-Lyttleton into the War Office in London as a technical adviser and Hoyle into radar development All through the blitz and the buzz-bombs Lyttleton kept publishing small, abstruse papers. Hoyle, by his own account, worked on cosmology "under the desk" like a schoolboy reading comics instead of doing his arithmetic...
...soldiers pulls into town. The village church gets shot up something awful and most of the Japs get what's coming to them and those Ty hasn't had a chance to kill yet get in their truck and go away just as the sky begins to buzz with hundreds and hundreds of American planes and it looks like MacArthur was right when he said "I shall return" and sure enough he does return or anyhow somebody wearing stars and dark glasses rides through town on a jeep waving and everybody is yelling and waving American flags...