Word: droning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corrected or turned to more effective use. The very thick and rich sound he produces cannot trace the delicate line of Schumann's Mondnacht nor suggest the naivete of Schubert's love-sick miller. In the lower limits of his range, notes lose their individuality and produce an unpleasant drone. Above his beautiful middle voice, Harkless' pitch control gets out of hand, with climatic high notes sometimes painfully flat. In short, he knows what effects to strive for, but he can not always command them...
...junglelike clutter and heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss...
...real struggle was in the cloakrooms, corridors and hotel suites where leaders of both parties worked for a compromise. The major Bricker amendment speech on the Senate floor was delivered by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, who hovered near his point for two days with the drone of an overfed bumblebee while a handful of his colleagues slouched drowsily in their chairs. One reason for the sad quality of debate was that many Senators .were too busy elsewhere-arguing the Bricker amendment in the desultory non sequiturs of radio and television panel shows...
...wants from the heroine (Geraldine Page) is a horse. When she gives him a kiss too, Actor Wayne rides away hastily, as if to assure his large public of small boys that there will not be too much mushy stuff in this one. There is, however, as the reels drone by; but there is also almost enough bare-knuckle work and short-range shooting of Indians to satisfy even a generation of children who have been nourished on the blood of afternoon TV programs...
...electronics, it is the sole maker of radar for Air Force interceptor planes, the sole builder of fire-control devices for Navy Banshee fighters. It also developed controls for an air-to-air guided missile so accurate that tests of it were stopped because it was destroying too many drone planes...