Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onto Quemoy and the other offshore islands. "Fear," said Chiang, "grows the farther you get from the front-all the way back to the U.S." In a speech to the National Guard Association of the U.S. at Atlantic City, N.J., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, in a remarkable echo of ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, went out of his way to sneer at Nationalist China's devotion to the offshore islands as "almost pathological," then declined to release a transcript of what he had said...
...mistake to see in his place for a strong state an echo of Fascism; he has shown himself aware and respectful of France's tradition of freedom, to such an extent that his attempt to establish as much of a powerful Executive as this tradition tolerates might well prove insufficient...
...Middle Congo, basket weavers in France, geishas in Japan, Saturday night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
Lost in an Echo. The captious sea is at once Admiral Jimmy Thach's ally and enemy. Sound, his chief means of detection, travels almost five times faster through water than through air, and it plays more tricks than a Soviet delegate at a peace conference. "The ocean," says Thach, "is a liquid jungle. Survival depends on how well we know this environment and whether, like Tarzan, we can tell the friendly sounds from the unfriendly ones-the monkeys from the tigers...
...thermal layer, 100 to 300 feet deep, distorts sound-and a knowledgeable sub skipper plays this layer like a shield. He can confound enemy sonar by hiding in the clacking wake of a destroyer, or by backing the submarine through his own wake to lose himself in his own echo...