Mr. Gross's top-secret mission in the O.S.S. was to develop a two-way air-to-ground voice communications system so that spies in enemy territory could transmit information to allied pilots flying overhead.
But as his newspaper career progressed, he adopted the bespoke suits, double-breasted blazers and habits of fine expense-account dining that denote a proper English gentleman, along with a rotund figure, a florid complexion and a booming, parade-ground voice inflected with what the English call a "plummy accent," one that proclaims upper-crust origins or aspirations.
On a campaign trip to Aberdeenshire, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said he had not watched the debate, but maintained that he would have liked to have taken part, because it lacked "a sensible centre-ground voice - spelling out some of the realities of what we face as a country, and setting out a hopeful vision about how we can finish the job of balancing the books and doing so fairly".
In July 2010, air-to-ground voice recordings and film footage shot in Mission Control during the Apollo 11 powered descent and landing was re-synchronised and released for the first time.
I was there, as the only on-the-ground voice broadcasting daily, live programming -- sometimes as many as 9 hours a day -- directly from the ground under the big white tent that had become the center of the world that summer, until Hurricane Katrina would hit just days later.
Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.
Mind you, to hear the directors of Zootopia talk, it was Ginnifer's emotionally grounded voice-over work as Officer Judy Hopps that really made that scene in this Walt Disney Animation Studios production work.
Then as the man is pushed to the ground a voice is heard to yell: "Drop the gun".
While not technically near the ground, a voice suggests "sound" and "sound" rhymes with "ground," the ground being low and possibly unclean, depending upon where, exactly, you're standing.
About 250 protesters gathered outside Hereford United's ground to voice their disapproval at the club's management.
(Sid, the giant ground sloth voiced by John Leguizamo, is finally getting a girlfriend, Dean's Sloth Siren).
