Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left for Paris, Secretary of State Herter made a statement justifying continued overflights. Reporters were told to draw their own conclusions. Press Secretary Hagerty bluntly denied a New York Times story that U-2 flights had been canceled. Ike, in his final pre-Paris press conference, seemed to echo Herter's position...
From Lewiston, Idaho came an answering echo from gallivanting Jack Kennedy, who had not been saying much about foreign affairs lately. "Our leadership appears palsied," he said, "and sympathy, not respect, is the reluctant sentiment we elicit from our allies-sympathy for the President as a man of good will, but dismay at the shocking lack in presidential directive as displayed in the U-2 incident. The maintenance of peace and the security of Berlin should not hang on the constant possibility of engine failure...
...like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student song, but owes much of its popularity to electricity. When he plays the song at nightclub engagements or recording sessions, onetime Electrician Azzam surrounds himself on the bandstand with an impressive bank of hi-fi equipment, places...
...Bolshevik who was one of Lenin's commissars in the revolution's early days. Kuusinen told an audience of some 20,000 at Moscow's Lenin Central Stadium that "war would be insane" with mankind's new destructive weapons. In Europe, the Communist satellites dutifully echo the line from "the leader of the socialist camp...
...leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom and glimpsed an image of abundance. Accordingly, the argument runs, the forthcoming summit conference may be the beginning of a spell of peaceful negotiation rather than a mere lull between crises. Moscow seemed to echo this springtime mood of the Western world with a Pravda statement that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared to do everything to solve the German problem on a basis acceptable to the West as well...