Word: echoeing
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...glittering new star appeared in the heavens last week, one that will be seen by more people than any other man-made object in history. It is the tissue-thin balloon satellite, Echo II, as tall as a 13-story building...
...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...will not change my beliefs to win votes. I will offer a choice, not an echo. This will not be an engagement of personalities. It will be an engagement of principles...
...German response was positive, and gave no echo of the Adenauer era, when every American gesture toward relaxing cold war tensions was interpreted as a sellout of West Germany. Erhard understood the U.S. frustrations and seemed determined to make his country bear its full share as a partner in the Western Alliance. And he readily agreed with Johnson that West Germany itself ought to join in the search for new paths toward East-West agreements...
...shrug off the Congo crisis, as well as its extraordinary lapses of human judgment, as in its boys-will-be-boys disregard of such howling security risks as Burgess and Maclean. Since more than 90% of all its recruits are Oxford or Cambridge men, class-conscious Britons still echo the plaint of 19th century Reformer John Bright that the service is "a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British aristocracy...