Word: echoeing
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...facts alone it was a criminal case designed to echo throughout the U. S. press, to excite passions, race prejudice, prurient interest. But the paper that printed most about the trial-but without getting lurid-was the Greenwich (Conn.) Time (circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning...
...visible in the falling walls of Europe's cities. And Joyce had died in the midst of this downfall-perhaps because of it. There was something about his death that suggested the great Bishop of Hippo, St. Augustine, dying at the close of the Roman world to the echo of Vandal swords against the city gates...
...thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude toward a republic was genuinely Naziistic. Madame Roland describes how he once gnawed his nails and asked with a snicker: "What is a republic?" "Who would," he asked like an echo of Hitler, "exchange the sublime destinies of the people of France for the constitution of the United States...
Married. Jack Frye, 36. big go-getting president of T. W. A.; and Helen Varner Vanderbilt, 32, who month ago divorced onetime newspaperman Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; in Echo Canyon, Ariz. Burbled she of her husband: "He is really what a woman dreams for-the most wonderful man I have ever met. ... I guess the romance really developed from my criticism of T. W. A.'s advertising. I said...
...Bats Fly. A doodad for ships sounding the ocean bottom is the echo-recorder, which shoots down supersonic waves (sound of higher pitch than the human ear can hear), gauges the depth by the time it takes the waves to bounce back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from...