Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...
...under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters chipped in: "We are going to abolish sales tax on such essentials as clothes, furniture and many household goods." In shocked response, newspapers, Tory candidates-and voters-all over Britain began to echo the question: "How will it all be paid for?'' Macmillan pressed his advantage. "A gross piece of electioneering," he sniffed. "They'd be driven to printing money...
From 32,000 to 625,000. In 20 years, 50-year-old Barney Kilgore has presided over the transformation of the Wall Street Journal from a Depression echo of Wall Street to the fastest-moving daily in the U.S. Since 1940, circulation has grown 19-fold, from 32,000 to 625,000, ranking the Journal among the top ten U.S. dailies. The country's only real contender for the title of national daily, the Journal is printed simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Dallas; beginning next year it will be printed near Springfield, Mass...
...stop anywhere, hardly looked out of the windows of his closed car. That night at a civic dinner in the Ambassador Hotel, Khrushchev found himself once again beside Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson keynoted a speech in which he was supposed to be introducing Khrushchev to an echo of Patrick Henry. "You shall not bury us," he told Khrushchev, "and we shall not bury you. But, if challenged, we shall fight to the death to preserve...
...might have been the Winter Garden in 1935. The girls drifted languidly down an outsized ramp while the music came pumping out of the pit like an echo from a Ziegfeld revue. A couple whisked onstage to do a comic turn, punctuated with the oddly archaic slang of the hepcat: "Hey, baby! Let's have a ball!" Occasion : the Manhattan opening of Japan's all-girl Takarazuka Dance Theater, an amalgam of the Folies-Bergere, the Radio City Rockettes, and native Kabuki styles...