Word: droned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bench then took over for the coach. The steady drone of curses and epithets lasted five minutes until the umpire had heard enough. He stopped the game and banished everyone not playing, coaches and managers included. The substitutes spent the rest of the game watching from the stands...
...Inverness on State Highway 49-W when the storm hit. "I think I'm a miracle," says Campbell. "It started raining real bad, and the wind was really blowing. I got into town and had to pull off the road. I pulled down the window and heard a drone like a million bumblebees come...
...abundantly present in a splendid Broadway revival of The School for Wives. The 309-year-old play bubbles with caustic merriment. A large debt of thanks is due Richard Wilbur's deftly idiomatic verse translation. Rendered into pedantic English, Molière's rhyming couplets can drone on with a perishing cumulative monotony. Wilbur makes the meters dance, and the players follow...
...through the roofs of buildings." The Pentagon insists that since prisoners are exercised only rarely in the open, there is simply no way to tell when they have been moved. One former senior Washington official found the intelligence failure unbelievable. Reconnaissance by satellite as well as by manned and drone aircraft can pick up vehicles, road activity, defense positions and many other telltale clues as to whether or not a camp is occupied. If, as Laird suggested, intelligence cannot function any better than it did at Son Tay, disturbing questions arise about the thousands of targets bombed...
...Moore's words, Language "stars four of what are apparently leading Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual acrobats perform illustrations. "It purports to be an animated Little Golden Book of marital relations," wrote Judge Moore, "or perhaps the Kama Sutra of electronic media, although the film is nowhere nearly as rich in the variety of its smorgasbord of delights as comparison with that ancient Hindu classic might suggest. It may be the vulgate scripture, the Popular Mechanics...