Word: echoeing
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Maybe the phrases in London's overcrowded, smoke-fogged Caxton Hall failed to echo the thunder of Palmerston, the precision of Gladstone or the delicacy of Asquith. But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed that the meanings did no dishonor to British Liberalism's revered granddaddies...
...daughters of worthy families hover in village doorways after tea, to chat with passing soldiers, free from camp for the evening. Country hedgerows echo in the dusk with laughter and new rustlings. In factory canteens, men and women in mutually greasy trousers lunch together by accident, arrange without benefit of formal introductions to dine more quietly elsewhere. At the "flicks" (movies), neighbors who have never seen each other hold hands. Adjoining seats in busses, trams and trains are excuse enough for a conversation which may lead to a quick drink, or maybe...
...seven forces, say Messrs. Hoover & Gibson, will be at the coming peace table: "Ideological, economic, nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic pressures, and the witches of fear, hate and revenge will participate in every discussion. But on the other hand, the prayers of a stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know all this from the nature of the human animal, from his long toilsome experience." To exploring and buttressing this pessimistic (or realistic) theme, they devote two-thirds of the book...
...becomes an ally of the Allied powers simply out of gratefulness in payment of debt, however overdue. Human nature thanks a debt or when he discharges a debt. All I have done is make this appeal [for independence] on bare and inherent justice and hope to find an echo in the British heart. Britons play desperately on the physical field. Let them play desperately on the moral field and declare that India's independence is fair, irrespective of India's demands...
Since 1916, they had fought labor's tough and grimy battles together-Lewis always the Big Noise, Murray always the loyal echo. Lewis became president of the Mine Workers, Murray his vice president...