Word: droned
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...White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid as his aging stoop, frigid correctness and nasal drone...
...years, he has been dosing his own, patients with such droning incantations as, "Arms, relax . . . shoulders, relax . . . eyelids, heavy," etc. It seemed to help, but Dr. Fink decided that it would help even more if the patient didn't have to put up with the physician in the same room. He made a tape recording of his professional drone. The result was so relaxing that he went to a Hollywood studio, made a recording as therapeutically smooth as possible: organ music, plus such reiterated crooning as "Going to sleep . . . Completely relaxed . . . Arms and legs are heavy, heavy . . . Eyelids feeling...
...addition, the company won an assortment of experimental orders for aircraft, including the long-range penetration XF-88 Voodoo fighter, the tiny, bomber-borne XF-85 parasite jet fighter, the first ramjet helicopter ("Little Henry"), radio-controlled bombs and jet-powered "drone" aircraft to simulate attacks on fighter pilots during training...
...humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines and the sigh of ventilating...
...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...