Word: droning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walls and, far below, the roaring waters of the Colorado River. Aware of the jostling horde of tourists on the overcrowded South Rim of the canyon, she traveled to the less popular main overlook at the North Rim. But while she stood there, her ears were assaulted by the drone of two sightseeing Cessnas and a Twin Otter, plus the clatter of four helicopters--all of which flew by within a few minutes. "With such an incredible view," she complained, "you'd expect some solitude...
...makes me maintain some balance in my life.If I didn't have a family, I think I'd probablywork too much, work beyond the point where I'mcreative," Friend says. "I need to get away fromthinking about my work specifically instead ofbeing like a drone all the time...
...case, my wife comes first. Although I wastoo much of a drone to meet her when she was aRadcliffe and I was I at Harvard Law School, thatomission was repaired later when she visited myhometown to recruit Radcliffe students and weenjoyed a blind date...
DIED. HOWARD COSELL, 77, TV and radio sportscaster; in New York City. In the '70s, TV Guide asked its readers to name their favorite and least favorite sportscasters. One man aced both categories: Howard Cosell. For a generation, his nasal drone-abrasive, unmistakable, too easily imitated by bad comedians-was the premiere guide to the nation's professional playing fields. Though he entered sportscasting in 1953 through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer...
...Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn sketched a lurid fantasy: how terrorists might wreck the central government of the U.S. On the night of a State of the Union address, when all the top officials are in the Capitol, Nunn said, a handful of fanatics could crash a radio-controlled drone aircraft into the building, "engulfing it with chemical weapons and causing tremendous death and destruction.'' This scenario, said Nunn, "is not far-fetched,'' and the technology is all readily available...