Word: droning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department has been destroyed academically. Compulsory courses (Marxism, Russian) help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment in the coal mines or harvesting crops. While prune-faced female lecturers drone on about the miracles of collectivization, the student "sport" society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school must fulfill its "production plan" and turn out so many graduates per year...
...featherbedding, both management and labor need to realize their duty to themselves-and to the U.S.-to work together in eliminating a luxury that the U.S. cannot afford in a competitive world economy. Featherbedding pushes up prices, pinches productivity, penalizes the consumer and the productive worker to reward the drone. Worst of all, by discouraging the use of time-saving and production-boosting new machines, it retards U.S. economic growth. Every economist agrees that the best way to create more jobs is to make the economy grow faster...
...poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka fanciers had submitted the stirrings of their muses. Eleven of the 15 winners were able to join the imperial family in the palace's drafty West Room to hear professional chanters drone the formal. 31-syllable verselets. The Emperor, who is above the burly of competition, had again delighted all by submitting a waka himself. Five times, a chanter intoned the tiny poem...
...Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader for an initial $170 million (23 planes) Navy contract...
...meantime, 67 volunteers and four officers will continue the war games under infra-red searchlights. Itinerant bootblacks, scullions, and vagrants have been hired as practice drone targets...