Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splattered echo of the great Roman general, Scipio Africanus, who defeated Hannibal at Zama (202 B.C.) and was Roman proconsul in Spain. When the Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of accepting bribes and misappropriating funds, he tore up the account books in question, flung them on the floor of the Senate, and went into embittered exile. On his tomb, he ordered the inscription: "Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis [Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not have even my bones...
...bomber equipped to use Shoran carries a radio transmitter that sends out short pulses of ultra high frequency (above 300 megacycles) waves. Two ground stations at well-separated points behind friendly lines pick up the airplane's pulses and echo them back greatly amplified. Apparatus on the plane measures the time it took for the pulses to make round trips to each of the stations. This gives a continuous picture of the airplane's distance from the two stations-and therefore its position on the map. The system is accurate enough to show the position of the plane...
Even Harry Truman realized that the Fair Deal was no more than a fading echo from the past. He paid his respects to it only in a few short paragraphs calling for "rounding out our system of social insurance," improved protection "against unemployment and old age," insurance against sickness and "the high cost of medical care," educational aid to the states...
...alternative is frightening. It is a future of phones that go dead when you answer them, of footsteps that echo yours and stop when you stop, of letters that disappear silently from your desk. The very napkin-holders will have ears, and even the maid will be tight-lipped and shifty-eyed as she goes over your room in the morning...
...echo of a 1918 statement that has become a part of Marine Corps legend. Moving up to Belleau Wood at the head of a company of marines, Captain Lloyd Williams was overtaken by a courier, told that the order of the French area commander was to retreat. "Retreat, hell," snapped Captain Williams, "we just got here," and took his troops into battle...