Word: droning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
When a queen is ready to mate, she picks a sunny day and takes off from the hive in a fast, rising flight. All the drones in the neighborhood drop whatever they are doing and follow. The union is consummated high in the air, often miles from the hive. The lucky drone (who is killed by the experience) may come from any bee colony within a large area...
...Outside Drones. This process can be repeated indefinitely without the help of any outside drone. The product is a pure, highly inbred strain of bees, which can be crossed with other strains to give desirable hybrids. For $95 the Department will provide bee breeders with the necessary equipment...
...Speaker began his swift reading of the Government measures. Shouts of "No . . . No ... I say No, sir!" broke into his drone. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, the humorist who finds parliamentary didos far from funny, was angrily shouting and waving his arms to rally the Opposition benches. From Labor's benches came a howl of "Miaow . . . miaow." In a moment the chamber was in uproar. But the Speaker droned on. Many Conservative and Liberal M.P.s stalked out in disgust at this unprecedented scene of legislation being pushed through to the accompaniment of undignified howling...
...Sacred Cow on the first lap of his trip to Mexico City (see above'), he was about to see her again, but he still seemed vaguely restless. As the morning wore on he picked up the radio telephone in the plane, called her house, talked over the drone of engines to his sister, Mary Jane. He said: "Tell her I'm about a mile and a half from St. Louis-straight...