Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
...Telltale Echoes. The secret is the mix of frequencies in the sound pulses, a formula that Lockheed copied from the porpoises. Small objects such as wires do not reflect the longer sound waves of the lower frequencies. The echoes that they send back are predominantly high-pitched, and a listener quickly learns to judge target size by the tone of the echo. Once he knows the size of an object, he can tell its distance by the loudness of the echo. Judging a target's material is a more subtle job, but in general, such hard materials as metal...
...handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court stirred more controversy than the 1962 and 1963 decisions banning religious observances in public schools. Beyond the questions of constitutional law lay deep emotions, and the court could have foreseen that its opinions would reverberate in public argument, that its decisions would echo through press and pulpit. It was to be expected that the court would strive to make its opinions as airtight as possible, both in law and logic. Instead, the opinions left room for many a doubt and reservation-by clergymen, by parents, and by constitutional lawyers...
Absurd Aberrations. Until then, the Tory Establishment will echo to some of the fiercest infighting in memory. At week's end Hailsham was the delegates' hero, and had already been offered four constituencies by their obliging members, but he irritated many parliamentary leaders by his bulldozer tactics. Moreover, there is little likelihood that Hailsham will be able to divest himself of his title and be elected for two months; at week's end the London bookies were laying 7 to 4 against his becoming Prime Minister. Maudling (6 to 1 against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...