Word: echo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked whether he was sick of answering questions about Curry and his problem, Restic replied "I'm sick for him, and about the whole situation." Restic's sentiments echo those of a lot of people who are just sorry that the senior got himself into this spot, or that Harvard got him into it. Or a combination...
...1950s, a clerk in a department store refused to let me sip from a water fountain, despite my mother's plea that "he's just a little boy." Later, when my family got its first television set, I was entranced by the ads for Glen Echo amusement park. My mother couldn't really explain why she couldn't take me there. The reason, of course, was that Glen Echo did not admit blacks. Nor did many restaurants, movie theaters and other public facilities...
...Barre is expected to initiate spartan economic measures, like higher interest rates and guidelines limiting price and wage increases, in an effort to restore monetary stability. To that end, he reserved the Economy and Finance portfolio in the Cabinet for himself. On the foreign front he is likely to echo Giscard's cordial internationalism, particularly toward the U.S. and the Common Market, in contrast to Chirac's brand of Gaullist nationalism. To soothe the Gaullists somewhat, Barre named Olivier Guichard-a Gaullist party baron and bitter Chirac rival-as Justice Minister. As to how the new Giscard-Barre...
...scrubbed from vice-presidential consideration in the late rounds, and many moderate Republicans echo George Hinman, a longtime aide to Nelson Rockefeller: "Connally has been shot down. There's no future...
...winds and vandals for more than two decades, then reopened in May as a national park. There have been no repairs. The paint is peeling from the walls. A stone wall shows a gaping wound where thieves smashed through to steal the copper piping. The grimy corridors echo the shuffling footsteps of today's slightly awed visitors passing through on the five-times-a-day guided tour...