Word: echoeing
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Next day many French reacted with shame and revulsion. Embarrassed officials announced five Moslems killed (a low estimate), 200 Europeans arrested. Even the Algiers press^ which has long campaigned for an all-out fight against the rebel Moslems, found the rioting excessive. Said Echo d'Alger: "The boys who rioted were playing the rebels' game." In Paris, Figaro editorialized: "We are left speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger...
Perhaps it is prosperity, perhaps the War, perhaps because newness itself is no longer really new, that a generation now inhabits these same corners across whose face is engraved the indictment, Bland. However it happened, youth is no longer young. Rarely now do dormitories echo with deep belly laughs, or sincere cries of despair. Neither a laugh nor a cry; only the faceless, anonymous bunch who find comfort in their own mediocrity...
...hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank. "I don't believe it," exclaimed one veteran mountaineer. "That woman can't be alive...
Bush Leagues & Bonuses. All over the country, college coaches echo Bibb's caustic comments. Things were bad enough when the major leagues paid polite lip service to their own rule forbidding dickering with collegians between sophomore year and graduation. But even that rule has been rescinded. Some 35% of the players on today's big-league clubs started their careers on college campuses. Some, like the Chicago Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark...
Shining in the sunlight that flooded the nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite). Gentle and merciful, yet awesome in its serene majesty, the figure stands 16 ft. tall, high above the floor of the nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful...