Word: echoeing
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...final touch of satire is a ripenorting skirmish in shoot-em-up Western style, with rifles cracking and artillery bombarding, with the Southern mansion blown to bits before our very eyes, and with Thersites treacherously shot dead in the back (as an echo of the earlier slaying of Hector...
When Woods Hole scientists took a closer look at the Trench, they found by echo sounding that its north wall is scored by fractures where deep-down rock seemed to be freshly exposed. Photographs showed the rock too, but bringing it to the surface was no easy task. Any sort of dredging in deep water is difficult; pulling a dredge among rocks and crags at the end of many miles of cable looked almost impossible...
...talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...echo a hearty "Amen" to the remarks of Dr. Samuel Howard Miller in the article "Hunger of the Heart" [TIME, June 16]. The need is indeed great for a critical re-examination of ancient religious dogma...
...beeps of early sonar. But generating enough such noise under water is a large problem. The Navy's latest shipboard sonar weighs 30 tons and consumes 1,600 times as much power as the standard postwar sonar. The listening apparatus is trickier because the long, slow waves that echo from targets require computers to interpret them correctly. But the detection problem is considered licked, since the new equipment has many times the range of earlier sonars-enough for catching nukes under most combat conditions...