Word: droning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional drowsy drone of the Indian-run bingo game is not so different from that played in church basements and lodge halls all over California and the U.S. But it is certainly more lucrative: Indian reservations like the Morongos' are not subject to most civil regulatory laws-including the California provision that limits bingo jackpots to a measly $250. Thus Indian Village Bingo offers an average total nightly payoff of $20,000 and a jackpot that last week reached $48,000. Thirty-five of the Morongo Indians have been provided jobs; near by, the Barona tribe's bingo...
Below him a host of white, fleecy clouds drifted like icebergs in the ocean of air. The real ocean lay so far because it could not be seen. Dreamily at first, hailed by the steady drone of the engines, Surkov gazed down and around him. How fragile, minute, meaningless was his life, flying over this great expense...
...news, MacNeil and Lehrer do an impressive job of rounding up people knowledgeable on a subject. Network executives, seeing the program win so many awards, condescendingly praise it as worthy; it is far more than that, even though there are nights when foreign accents become too thick, or economists drone too long over their hedgings. There is now an imitator in ABC's late-night Nightline with Ted Koppel; he is well-briefed and quick-witted, but it isn't in him to be as self-effacing as MacNeil or Lehrer...
...Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
...hears already the night sounds of autumn: slide projectors clicking in the dark to punctuate a drone of travelogue. The oppressed audience writhes and dozes and works its eyes open and shut like jalousies. Etna will be seen in a bleeding, theatrical sunset. The Acropolis will be out of focus, Dorothy sharp in the foreground. Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club...