Word: droned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs departed, grey skies closed In again on the grey ships, and there was a steady drone in the sky. The drone became a deafening roar, and a mass of U.S. planes swept over the ships-400 B-29s and 1,500 fleet carrier planes-in a final salute. Then it was quiet again. The ceremony-and the war-were over...
...corporal, attached to headquarters of the Central Army District, was in a hotel and put his head out the window when he heard the drone of engines overhead. "I looked up," he said in a Tokyo radio interview, "and simultaneously a lightning-like flash covered the whole sky, blinding my eyes. Unconsciously, I dived for cover and a torn quilt miraculously was blown over me, which I hugged to myself for dear life...
Then, of course; there was New Year's Eve, and that unforgettable morning after--in class. The drone of the Profs mingled with the snores of the class. And only Tom Gaines--a teetotaller if I ever smelled one--had the energy to speak, as he cracked, "Why I feel so bad, the circles around my eyes have bags under them." Gay parties celebrated what, for most of us, is the last New Year's for quite a while. Out in Roslindale, some of the boys had quite a time. The Copley Square Officers' Club was the stamping ground...
...aviation. But he never forgot the romantic characters of aviation's past. When the Army allowed the company to use a Flying Fortress for wartime business he picked George Willingham, a tiny, aging, ex-air-mail pilot, to fly it. Last week the plane, nicknamed The Drone, carried the pair from Seattle to Washington, D.C., a trip which had become routine since Johnson began mass production of the huge B-29 Superfortresses...
...sees the Australian press twice a day. Curtin chain-smoked throughout his interview, jabbed at the . air with his cigaret holder to emphasize his points. At his press conferences Mr. King usually sits Buddha-like with his hands folded on his lap, seldom lifts his voice above a dreary drone. Curtin welcomed questions, answered directly and enjoyed the session. Mr. King finds a press conference an ordeal, resents questions, seldom answers them directly...