Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past several days we have been listening to a man whose words echo the idealism of a milder world where, if anything, people believed that they could solve their problems if they were reasonable, patient, and candid...
...undergraduates below the age of reason recall the glorious four-sided clock of golden arms that once perched atop Memorial Hall. Destroyed in a fire over two years ago, only a faint echo of its booming voice is heard to remind Harvard of a time when men of high degree and low measured their affairs by its authority...
...virtual elimination of the Communists from the National Assembly meant a welcome end to the Red log-jamming that has plagued every French Parliament since World War II. All the same, the makeup of the new Assembly prompted many a Frenchman to echo the question posed by Le Monde: "Is the bride too beautiful...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...
Most famed are Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...