Word: echoeing
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...them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with Mao's dictum of depersonalization. The four lived in the Echo Park-Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, a pleasant older part of the city. Bissell and Perry shared an apartment, while Justesen and Mullin lived together in a small, old house nearby...
...pervade the encyclopedia. The editors believe that "a decade hence many of the problems mentioned in these pages will have been solved." Zoologist H.S. Micklem states that most of "the missing pieces in the jigsaw" of immunology will soon be discovered. The other contributing scientists, too, appear to echo Coleridge's declaration that encyclopedias represent a faith in "the progress of the future...
...Hellmuth Hertz of the Lund Institute of Technology. Their pioneering accomplishment: the application of ultrasonics to diagnosing abnormalities of the heart. Hailed by the Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show an image of the heart pumping on a TV screen-all without surgery or other invasive techniques
...course Beckett the absurdist, the existentialist does come through in his style. Many lines in "Echo's Bones" and "Malacoda" remind us of that airy, disjointed dialogue in Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Beckett's poems are filled with much of the same choppy, incomplete, grammarless phrases that characterize his prose and dialogues. Yet there is still that cryptic element...
...cruising the sky. "Everyone was lying there on their backs with binoculars," says Dillon. "I remember thinking that if there were extraterrestrial beings up there observing us, they would think that earth creatures were flat beings with strange eyes." The object turned out to be an Echo satellite...