Word: echoeing
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...clock one afternoon last week citizens of Hankow. China's temporary capital, heard the ominous roar of approaching airplanes. Within a few seconds they sighted, coming from the northeast in perfect formation, 50 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes. A few minutes later the authoritative echo of exploding bombs reverberated through Hankow's narrow streets...
...they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being caught moralizing. But their logic is valid, and powerful inhibitions force them to write as they do, or to destroy the poems they sometimes write that echo an earlier period. They are specialized, but so is every other department of the modern world. Technically, the best of them are capable of writing grand, ruminating lines like Byron...
...will continue to share with our museums and gardens, our hospitals and laboratories, in the glory of making this spot one of the intellectual centres of the world. Here books are not kept in prison but are open to the use of all without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards...
...remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...
...worst shape of all, however, was the respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph...