Word: echoeing
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...when the townspeople of the north German port of Cuxhaven were startled from their sleep by an eerie echo of the past: the wail of air-raid sirens. The howling horns, however, did not signal an air attack but the breeching of the town's dikes by one of the worst storms of the century...
Upside Down. In Algeria, an S.A.O. detachment took over the newspaper office of L'Echo d'Oran, put out 20,000 copies of an edition with a huge picture of the S.A.O. chief, ex-General Raoul Salan, and a fiery S.A.O. communiqué, which in their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France...
...Echo from the Past? Coupled with the compliments for West Germany were dazzling hints of trade treasures ahead; an "ocean-size market is waiting . . . but only a tiny part of existing possibilities is being used." Getting to the point last week. Radio Moscow spoke of "the spirit of Rapallo,"* and in a major switch, Pravda assured Bonn that none of this meant West Germany must become a "neutral" and leave NATO; relations could be "normalized" without breaking up existing blocs. In fact, it was hinted that Russia might drop the idea of a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
When the rocket was 150 miles up, the canister containing Echo A12 was released by explosive bolts. Retrorockets fired, slowing the burned-out Thor, while small stabilizing jets in its nose kept it pointed at the departing canister. Still aboard the rocket were cameras...
...balloon expanded to its full 135-ft-diameter in two seconds. Then a rip raced across the silvery skin; almost instantaneously the great balloon tore into shapeless shreds. The pictures were so good that they could be reshown on household TV sets. Back to the drawing boards went Echo A12's designers. But airborne TV had already told them what had gone wrong: Echo A12 contained too much residual air, which made the balloon expand too violently into the vacuum of space...