Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent back thousands of cloud-pattern pictures that are revolutionizing meteorology. The U.S.'s Courier I-B showed what can be done by a satellite packed with electronic equipment and acting as a relay station for forwarding floods of messages almost instantaneously around the curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large, passive reflector from which to bounce radio waves. Transit satellites I-B and II-A were U.S. Navy prototypes for a network that will outmode all previous methods...
...Kennedy Administration. The Pentagon, highly fond of retiring Secretary Thomas Gates, sighed at the thought of educating the fourth Secretary in eight years, and some recalled the memory of the lackluster regime (1953-57) of another automan, General Motors ex-President "Engine Charlie" Wilson. (In an echo of Wilson's oft-quoted remark, a newsman asked McNamara: "Do you believe that what's good for Ford is good for the country?" Replied McNamara: "I shall act in the interest of the country. That is all I will say on the subject...
Producers of unsaturated fats, such as Mazola Corn Oil and Wesson Oil, were ready, too. They took full-page ads in the nation's newspapers to echo the A.H.A. action. And in Minneapolis, Physiologist Keys-who helped draft the A.H.A. statement-called it an acceptable compromise, although it contained "some undue pussyfooting." Said he: "The A.H.A. had to get the facts out. A deal like this includes a great deal of commercial pressure. People in the meat, dairy, butter, and oils industries have billions at stake. They're very unhappy. The vegetable oil people are delighted. We couldn...
...Here the depths of Jo's anguish and the great meaning of her being alone and pregnant is driven home. Only at the end do lines humorously snapped off, such as "Your generation has some very peculiar ideas, that's all I can say," reverberate to their final, serious echo...
...Keller is too intelligent and too shrewd to delude himself by his enthusiasms, and at times his doubts can echo like mocking prophecies: "I had already forgotten the teaching of history, that great majorities can be poisoned and ruined by a single person and in gratitude will in their turn poison and ruin honest people - that a majority which has once been lied to can go on wanting to be lied to, and raises ever new liars on its shield, as if it were only one single conscious and resolute scoundrel...