Word: droning
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...built a network of permanent facilities: airfields, antitank ditches, a full-size military hospital. It is no secret that some of these facilities have been used to support American allies outside Honduras. Contra guerrillas battling the Sandinistas in Nicaragua train at American-built camps in Honduras; U.S. pilotless, or drone, planes are said to fly from Honduras over El Salvador, spying out concentrations of leftist guerrillas to be attacked by the U.S.-aided government...
...need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas...
...need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas...
...week's end the Soviet Union shed light on the incident. The Soviet ) Ambassador in Helsinki paid a call on the Finnish Foreign Minister to acknowledge that, "in connection with target shooting in the Barents Sea," a target drone "could have strayed off course and violated Finnish airspace." Almost simultaneously, the Soviet Ambassador in Oslo delivered a similar message to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry...
...their obvious intelligence, however, it is not always easy to know just what neoliberals stand for. Pragmatism is a sound approach to governance, but it is not a clarion call. Challenged to offer specific "new ideas," Hart would drone on about individual training accounts for workers or the need for smaller aircraft carriers. His high-tech notions were often imaginative, but they benumbed voters...