Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...echo a hearty "Amen" to the remarks of Dr. Samuel Howard Miller in the article "Hunger of the Heart" [TIME, June 16]. The need is indeed great for a critical re-examination of ancient religious dogma...
...beeps of early sonar. But generating enough such noise under water is a large problem. The Navy's latest shipboard sonar weighs 30 tons and consumes 1,600 times as much power as the standard postwar sonar. The listening apparatus is trickier because the long, slow waves that echo from targets require computers to interpret them correctly. But the detection problem is considered licked, since the new equipment has many times the range of earlier sonars-enough for catching nukes under most combat conditions...
...world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
...long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself, it was simple, effective and cheap...