Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribe ("I found them a rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government, my troubles will begin. It will be but a matter of time before I find that I am unable to deliver the goods I may have promised out of political expediency. Then the head of Julius Nyerere will roll...
...most record buyers were concerned, just a year ago stereo sound was little more than a whisper in a laboratory echo chamber. By the beginning of this year, the stereo disk (usually $1 more than a comparable monophonic) accounted for roughly 10% of total LP sales; by year's end, it may represent a third of the total. But stereo disks are not likely to make the old monophonic disks entirely obsolete, since a well-engineered old-style LP sounds fine when played on stereo. While the sale of monophonic equipment has dwindled to almost nothing, many...
...loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut hair, when you call 'Ella' the echo comes back 'bella...
...wonder is that a man as patently mad as Rolfe should have been sane enough to write Crabbe's story. He saw himself, not as others saw him, but, worse, as he saw others. Yet a strong echo of religious faith and a capacity for lacerating laughter relieve the baleful monomania of his vision...
Accustomed to a mettlesome front-page newspaper litany (30 years ago Chicago had eight dailies), 4,000,000 Chicagoans were left with but two voices: the somewhat muted Tribune echo of the late Robert R. McCormick's testy Republican conservatism and the somewhat vague independence of Marshall Field. But the end result may be good. By buying the News, newly confident Marshall Field Jr. has succeeded in doing what his father, who established the Sun in 1941. was never able to do: set himself up to give the Tribune a real run for its money. As if in testament...