Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such mysteries as the lugubrious drums, bells, and fish horns that echo in tombs during initiations, the awsome initials OTIRUNBCDIFT on the Skull and Bones catalog, and the Wolf's Head water bill-highest in New Haven--these are likely to attract the most callous student. Yet most students do not heel their way up the extra-curricular ladder for the sale goal of "going Bones," or at least they say they don't. The six tombs are more important as the extreme result of the Yale credo of success, and as an exaggerated example of it. For the spooks...
Some School-of-Paris giants were represented by studies which proved to the hilt their ability to echo the classical tradition that Ingres most admired. But gallery-goers paused longest before their less readable works, drawings which bore the stamp of each artist's rebellious, individualistic style...
...Lobby Registration Act, the AMA spread $2 million and 55 million propaganda leaflets last year in the fight against the President's national-health program. With the largest delegation and the most envied slush fund in Washington, organized medicine can outshout you and your neighbor combined, through the echo may not get beyond the committee room...
...squad of U.S. marines were raising the Stars & Stripes over the American Embassy in Seoul when they heard a rifle shot echo above the crackle of flames in the burning city. It was uncomfortably close at hand, and the Communist sniper, on a rooftop 60 yards away, was getting ready to let drive again. Several dozen marines stepped forward and raise their pieces. Captain Charles D. Fredrick waved them back. Said he: "One sniper, one marine," and nodded to one of the riflemen. At the marine's third shot the sniper tumbled down. The flag went...
...Author Gordon's fictional echo, with alterations, of the 1946 lynchings near Monroe, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946), two people weren't content to let the case rest. One of them was Melady, a New York reporter who had covered the intimidation trial. The other was Nathan Hamilton, husband of one of the victims. Up North when the verdict came, Nathan packed a Luger in his bag and started south...