Word: droning
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...actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity...
...busiest base in Southeast Asia these days is Hanoi, capital of North Viet Nam. Its streets swarm with Russians and Red Chinese. Laos is much on their minds. Sixty Russian pilots and flight engineers are billeted at the Union Hotel, and the persistent sound in the air is the drone of Ilyushins winging off with supplies for the pro-Communist rebels in Laos. But Hanoi's rulers have an even more important project in mind after Laos. At party dinners, where the cutlery comes from East Germany, the glasses from Czechoslovakia and the brandy from Bulgaria, the talk invariably...
...seen, on any amateur stage, such a beautiful and effective set; I have never seen, anywhere, such disparity between the stage and the staging. The blocking, the lighting, the choreography, the props--all were designed for a rectangular stage, and not very imaginatively designed at that. And the monotonous drone of the music--the same for a wedding dance, with the dancers half-heartedly beating out no rhythm in particular, as for a dirge--made me wish for happy deafness...
Arsenal. The entire Plaine des Jarres is bulging with Russian armaments and swarming with Vietnamese. The Ilyu-shins, which are lined up 18 deep at Hanoi airport, drone in by the hour, bringing 45 tons of equipment a day. About once a week, a convoy of 50 Gorky trucks rolls in over primitive Route Seven from Vinh in North Viet Nam. The rebels have more than 60 Gorky trucks. 40 Soviet jeeps, about 25 command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian...
...sold well to feeder lines. Fairchild hopes to branch out into new products, feels that "every business has something in it that has growth, even if the business as a whole does not." One new development that could help his company: the USD-5, an unmanned electric-eye drone capable of flying over enemy territory to take pictures and send back data electronically...