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Word: droned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand in the face of available evidence. But the EPA has stopped short of forbidding the herbicide's use. In April, the agency published an elaborate defense of its policy, providing exhaustive appendices and tales of scientific studies documenting the harmful effects of dioxin on laboratory animals. The statistics drone on and on, but the EPA cops-out and fails to draw the logical conclusion...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Chemical Warfare at Home and Abroad | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

...montage of photographs showing various moments of violence and human misery. But this effective cinematic ploy is followed by the enunciation of the guiding tenet underlying the spiritual system of Arica: "Unity must be achieved as a fact of reason and not an act of faith." The constant drone of John Bleibtreu's narration muddies the film, distracting the viewer from the lush visual imagery contained in the footage...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Eavesdropping on Experience | 5/19/1978 | See Source »

...Rolling Stones, Richie Havens and the Beatles used sitars for an exotic flair. Jazz musicians John McLaughlin and John Coltrane, attracted to Indian music's minor keys and improvisations, extracted aspects of its theory (quarter tones, complicated 17-beat rhythms, a constant drone) into their musical structures. The result is an innovative, unique music style that fuses Eastern and Western cultures...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Sound is God | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...their boats, the coxes are in total control. On and on they drone as their crews flail away at their oars. The cox just sits up front taking in the sun and getting mad at the world...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: It's Six in the Morning; They Must Be Crazy | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

...music evokes a futuristic, endless landscape of highways and smoldering refinery stacks. Although some of the instrumental passages could be briefer, the song represents a brilliant synthesis of Bowie's and Iggy's talents. A low sinister drone ends the tune in an effective, chilling fade...

Author: By Johanna T. Defenderfer, | Title: Iggy Meets Ziggy | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

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