Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that sunny August morning, Little Boy fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city...
...prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...
...Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...trying to express, replied: "When I was young, I was 19. Does that answer your question?" With few exceptions, critics do little better. Art News once described one of Mark Rothko's works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant, by the clay-colored echo of a final and unbreakable promise." The point, as Louis Armstrong once said of jazz, seems to be: "When you got to ask what it is, you'll never get to know...
...great trick to shoot radio waves at the moon and get a faint echo. The Signal Corps did it first in 1946, and even radio hams do it now. But dependable communication by lunar reflection is harder. The Signal Corps and its collaborator, Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, use ultrashort waves (810 megacycles, 37 cm.) because they pass without much loss of energy through the ionized layers in the high atmosphere...