Word: droned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music wafted across the crowded field. Some 40,000 Grenadians waiting for their first words from the President of the United States swayed to the lyrics of the country's most popular ballad. The song, which recounts the landing of U.S. troops on the tiny Caribbean island, mimics the drone of helicopters, the "rat-tat-tat" of machine guns and the boom of big guns as it pays exuberant tribute to the island's liberator, "Uncle Reagan...
...plodding bureaucrat whose soft drone is regularly drowned out by the assertive tones of his rivals. Another is a different kind of Milquetoast, one who talks tough but is steering American policy away from stern anti-Sovietism back toward wishy-washy detente. A third is no Milquetoast at all, but a policymaker who has so thoroughly won the trust of his chief that he speaks with an authority exceeded only by that of President Reagan...
...nerve-racking. In Missouri, these days, it is constant and pervasive. The cicadas have three things to say. One is a steady, insistent, buzzy trill: zs-zs-zs-zs-zs. It is a background to a more varied kee-o-keeeee-o-kee-o that punctuates the steady drone. When picked up and held, the cicadas emit a sharp bzz-t-byzzt that sounds troubled and probably...
...built a network of permanent facilities: airfields, antitank ditches, a full-size military hospital. It is no secret that some of these facilities have been used to support American allies outside Honduras. Contra guerrillas battling the Sandinistas in Nicaragua train at American-built camps in Honduras; U.S. pilotless, or drone, planes are said to fly from Honduras over El Salvador, spying out concentrations of leftist guerrillas to be attacked by the U.S.-aided government...
...need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas...