Word: echoeing
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...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
Steel-framed buildings. In land construction welding's methods and savings are similar to those in shipbuilding. Welded structural steel is 7 to 10% cheaper than riveted - an economy which guarantees that riveting will never echo again in U.S. cities. Increasingly common in recent years, welded steel frames would have supplanted riveted buildings five or ten years sooner in most cities had not backward building commissions feared that welding was some sort of tinsmith's soldering...
...close to being a real casualty last week. Stationed with an anti-aircraft unit at an abandoned farmhouse near Fort Bragg, he was moseying around for some soft weeds on which to spend the night when he suddenly dropped 30 feet into a dried-up well. He yelled. The echo was terrific, but nobody came. He tried to climb out, but the well walls crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes. He screamed. Still nobody came. Once in a while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped...
...echo of their nervous bantering still hangs in the room as the camera lingers a long moment on the sudden emptiness. The players have gone; the game has started...
...conferred had heard one another's opinions on this problem more times than they cared to remember. There was one inescapable fact: the U.S. was adamant in its embargo. There was another: Germany was urgent for action. The echo of her terrible armies thunder ing at the gates of Moscow beat louder & louder in Tokyo. It caused the blood of warriors to race. But Prince Konoye refused to assume responsibility for a break with the U.S. The Army had opposed Prince Konoye for months, the Navy had supported him. Last week the Navy suddenly turned, declared itself "itching...