Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Echo's Answer...
With Duff a pre-election favorite, the crucial fight was for the governorship with its control of 40,000 state jobs. Judge Fine, longtime boss of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), was heavily attacked by Grundymen who called him "a cardboard candidate," "Little Sir Echo," and a "political judge" who winked at gambling. Grundy set out a bait for undecided voters by backing retired Philadelphia Banker Jay Cooke, who insisted he was an independent. Duff met the challenge headon. "Cooke is no more independent of the old guard than the thumb on Grundy's right hand," snorted Duff. "I would...
...typical pulse of bat sonar, Dr. Griffin found, lasted less than two-thousandths of a second. The pulses are sent out in bursts, sometimes following each other at a rate as high as 130 per second. Between the pulses, the bat listens for the echoes, keeping its head in constant motion as if "scanning" the obstacles around it, and "sees" by the timing and direction of the returning sound waves. The longer an echo takes to return, the farther away the object from which it has bounced...
...although Lamkin's tale of an aristocratic family's decline in a back water Louisiana town seems to have been told before, the author's thorough understanding of his subject matter prevents his first novel from becoming merely an echo, hollow as the life of his virginal, bachelor story-teller, Henry Nelson...