Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shouts of "Fill her up!" echo daily over the foundation of one of Harvard's most stately dormitories. For the twentieth century and a Gulf gasoline station long ago replaced the first fashionable queen of the Gold Coast, Beck Hall...
...match was so one-sided that the stadium rocked to the shrill and scornful sound of the "Moscow Whistle," a nerveracking Eastern echo of The Bronx cheer. English sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...
...neck down, comparing finery. As for the performers on the stage, they do not necessarily rate full attention either. But this season the excellent San Francisco Opera Company has three attractions that compel all eyes and ears. They are three striking European sopranos whose high Cs are sure to echo across other U.S. opera and concert stages...
...Your entertaining report ... is vivid and accurate, except for one paragraph. Opposition to Echo Park Dam, which would flood most of Dinosaur National Monument, has been led by all of the national conservation organizations of the nation; the protests have come from millions of people of every state, who see their national park system endangered...
...Echo Park Dam would ruin the extraordinary canyons in the monument, and it is not necessary in order to provide the desired water and power benefits, since there are alternative methods...