Word: droned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday afternoon in March 1989, and the entire Expository Writing teaching staff had just listened to teachers Elizabeth Muther and Susan E. Carlisle drone on for nearly an hour about their plan for "theme courses." And now Nancy Sommers was making an announcement...
...with unremarkable songs. Each tune sounds pretty much like the other and it is difficult to distinguish tracks 2 through 10 from one another. Vocalist Colleen's raspy shrieks are much more powerful live than taped. In concert, you expect to miss a few lines in the guitars' drone, but Colleen's unintelligible all the time...
...that time, however, I had not yet discoveredmy fascination with, and appreciation for, pain. Iwas scared. As I walked into Artistic Tattooing, Itried to force an expression of indifference ontomy face, hoping that no one would notice my badlyshaking hands. I was fighting a losing battle: thequiet drone of the electric needle made me queasy,and I could hear my voice tremble as I askedRusty, AT's master craftsman, if there wasanything to which...
...jury filed in at 7:05 a.m. Several women jurors were dressed in their Sunday best; all the jurors looked self-satisfied and all kept their eyes away from the four defendants. An anxious city and nation listened as court clerk Jim Holmes began to read, in a practiced drone, the verdict the jurors had just handed Judge John Davies. How did the panel find on the charge that police sergeant Stacey Koon "did willfully permit" the savage beating of Rodney King by three other cops under his command, thus depriving King of his constitutional rights? Said Holmes: "Guilty...
...Everyone told me that--never look at a map on the street. Nascent paranoia was restrained as I made a lucky guess and arrived at the famed hostel: a huge, mucky building, with a central quad piled with trash and puke. I cannot forget that night. A constant drone of police cars filtered through the window (accompanied by odd flashing lights), and my roommate--it was a cheap place - who happened to be a fellow Englishman, was wallowing in the later stages of drugged stupor. He had come to New York with a mission to explore its gunky side...