Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxieties TIME expresses about Philippine stability in the wake of the Aquino shooting echo the fears and doubts voiced about American democracy after the killing of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. No society ever really depends for its survival on any individual, no matter how commanding or heroic. Marcos is in good health, but if he is unable to carry on, the 1973 constitution lays down an orderly method of succession...
Near the island of Moneron, 30 miles off the Sakhalin coast, Japanese fishermen heard at least two thunderous noise from the sky above them. They reported seeing a fiery flash denoting what one called "some awful explosion." It was an explosion that would soon echo, in disbelieving protest, around the world...
...World War II, American soldiers darted across Europe in Jeeps and swarmed ashore on to Pacific islands from LSTs. By the 1960s, G.I.s were commuting to and from action in Viet Nam by helicopter. The chopper, in fact, is symbolic of that war, and memories of 'Nam still echo with the beat of rotor blades...
...career, especially on his own network, ABC, can be understood, in a way, in human terms. Colleagues reach for any device to say so long to a fine man. However, television, as its high priests keep insisting, is a public trust, a servant. But there was the faint echo in all of the Reynolds tribute of the television anchor fraternity telling the nation that they stand astride civilization and ride in the company of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Popes. They rule...
...Bloomfield Hills, Mich., as well as at Harvard, which he frequently visits. The interior of his new Keio University library has a richness of architectural effects-the views, the progression of spaces, the staircase, furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most unabashedly Japanese of Maki's designs to date, however, are in his 18-bedroom guesthouse for foreign trainees of the YKK zipper-manufacturing concern near Komatsu. Here, shoji, entrance hall, crossbeam and other elements of ancient Japanese architecture are reinterpreted in ways that are at once both...