Word: droned
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...Force major and experienced fighter pilot, is part of an lite group of U.S. troops playing a crucial role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the U.S.'s most notorious playground. From Nellis Air Force Base, outside Las Vegas, Rogers controls a Predator, a flimsy drone that has been transformed from a spy plane into one of the wars' most lethal weapons. Predators played a key part in catching Saddam Hussein and have killed al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan and Yemen. In September a Predator tracked 11 insurgents who had attacked a U.S. base in Iraq, then...
...Laden was spotted in Afghanistan by an unarmed Predator, the U.S. government sped up a program to fit each aircraft with two Hellfire missiles. Awesome sounding but benign looking, the 27-ft.-long Predator is painted a dull gray and shaped like an upside-down spoon with wings. The drone is made of lightweight composite plastic and metal and has a tiny, propeller-driven engine--adapted from a snowmobile's--with a decidedly unimpressive top speed of only 150 m.p.h. Rogers' previous craft, the supersonic F-15 jet fighter, can fly up to 900 m.p.h...
NOISE-CANCELING HEADPHONES A bargain at $69, these foldable Noisebusters, with active antinoise technology, hook up to a personal stereo or an in-flight sound system to cut out airplane drone and annoying conversations...
...album pretty much has the same feel all the way through: mildly threatening drums, mid-tempo minor-key keyboards and the occasional generic ’70s funk loop. The good part of this is that the album has a unified feel, and one can get lost in the drone, which is, at times, pretty easy on the ears. The bad part is that if you step back and actively try to analyze the music, it falls apart, and this unified feel turns into a monotonous, depressing, barely tolerable drone. If Mr. Cent set out to create the aural equivalent...
...vintage ledger complete with an intricate gold patterned cover, is Ware’s most upbeat work to date. This will be a relief to those who were all certain of dying alone after reading “Jimmy Corrigan,” the story of a lonely office drone with an abusive and fragmented family. While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best: “Reading ‘Jimmy Corrigan?...