Word: echoeing
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Seringueiros & Garimpeiros. Last week's palace coup hardly rippled the crowds of Cariocas on Rio's lovely, white-sand beaches. The echo was even fainter to the great mass of Brazilians (some 75% illiterate) who crowd the sea coast and are scattered through the vast Brazilian interior. Seringueiros (rubber workers) in the flowered Amazon jungle, garimpeiros (diamond hungers) far to the west in the State of Goiaz, and gaúchos on the broad ranges of Rio Grande do Sul probably would not hear the news for days and weeks...
...France Pertinax will write thrice weekly for Pierre Lazareff's France-Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where...
...Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
...receiver with a "klystron," "lighthouse" or other oscillating tube, used to convert the microwave echo to a lower radio frequency so that it can be amplified...
...what it sees depends on differences in its targets' reflecting power (which engineers call the "dielectric constant"). Metal is an excellent reflector; earth, an indifferent one. Water also is a good reflector, but because of its flat surface, the radar beam caroms off at an angle and no echo reaches the receiver (except from a spot in the center of the beam); hence water appears black on the scope...