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Word: echo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although his words echo the reasoning behind the age hike, some sectors of the law take a rather laissez-faire attitude towards fake i.d.'s. According to William McCarthy of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABCC), the arm of the state government that administers and revokes liquor licenses, "Historically the commission has not been taking any disciplinary action against the possessor of a [fake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake I.D.'s: Easy to Come By, Harder to Use | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

Somehow, Clinton blends it all into his beat to produce a record that not only "takes cover in the groove" (as he would have it) but even manages to "funk the bomb" (as the Village Voice proclaimed in a recent review). The salacious echo of "funking the bomb" is in your own mind: We're talking funk, sucker...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located the Titanic with a "25-year-old echo sounder. It could have been done in a fishing boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Haunting Images of Disaster | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

There it rendezvoused with the Suroit, which had been sounding the water since June 28. The French ship had picked up an important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After 73 Years, A Titanic FIND | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...throughout the 1970s, House committees refused to name student delegates to the CRR, charging it could punish students for their political beliefs without appeal to a higher body. Anti-apartheid protesters today continue to echo this sentiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on Rights and Responsibilities | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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