Word: droningly
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COOLIDGE CORNER stop. About ten people pushed their way onto the trolley, plunked their forty-five cents into the farebox, and moved to the rear, the driver repeating his drone, "Don't forget your fares, please, your fares." Meanwhile, the elderly woman next to me had been leaning forward towards the floor; she reached down awkwardly, coming back up with a bunch of dollar bills as wrinkled as her paste-white hands. Thoroughly bewildered, she looked...
...delayed, many of the 130,000 students have entered the army or the civil defense force. Crowds form in front of the military hospital on Roda Island in the Nile River, waiting quietly to visit relatives who were wounded in the fighting. Overhead they can hear the even-spaced drone of Soviet cargo planes, flying new war supplies into Cairo airport...
...After the interminable drone of the Watergate hearings, the picture that lingers in the mind is of a beleaguered President gathering the dignity of his presidential robes about him and responding with an almost superhuman patience and courtesy to a group of reporters, all with their knives out and all visibly thirsting for his blood. It reminded me of the howling savages dancing around the suffering Uncas tied to the stake in The Last of the Mohicans...
...coming. A well-informed Western intelligence officer observes that "while the government's forces have been going downhill, the insurgents have been improving." Even usually optimistic Premier In Tam candidly allowed that the military situation was going "from bad to worse." Villagers flee devastated hamlets as American warplanes drone overhead. Roads leading to Phnom-Penh are crowded with refugees, their pots, mattresses, bedframes and children piled high on ox-drawn carts...
...gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like a poorly-rendered Walter Brennan--stilted and mechanical. The woman acquires a more natural and varied style of movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone that parodies itself and is perfect for absurdity. He sounds like a voice from the Firesign Theater--which at its best approaches an absurdist theater of the seventies...