Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glum American motorist. There were the nerve-jarring traffic jams as well as the glossy six-lane highways, and the whole was pleasantly salted with a wry and unpretentious commentary. Reaction was immediate. "An outstanding event," said the Sunday Times. "Visual journalism at its best," said the South Wales Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just Looking. Once a month since then, Report has ranged the U.S. scene. One report managed to tell without bragging how the smog was licked in Pittsburgh. How America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket...
...Time for jazz," says the deep voice carefully. "Time for jazz," echo tens of thousands of loudspeakers around the world, as the strains of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey...
...mother,' but not the head of the nation. To the latter, render what is Caesar's . . . but not the soul . . ." Under the Whips. Some, like Julius Leber, a Social-Democratic member of the Reichstag, spoke in tones of courageous epigram in which Americans can hear an echo of Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found him self under the steel whips of the Gestapo, said the simple truth. In pinpricks on a roll of paper, Moen...
...believe what the old grads tell you, men. They are trying to lure us into their illusory way of thinking, but we must face both sides of the truth: not only is the future bleak; it is hardly more than a bitter echo of the past...
...addition the Foundation appointed Charles H. Hale, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle; Burnell A. Heinecke, reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times; John C. Obert, city editor of the Park Region Echo in Alexandria, Minn.; Frederick W. Roevekamp, reporter on the Christian Science Monitor; and Frederick W. Pillsbury '50, editorial writer on the Boston Herald...