Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic case of scientific serendipity. The two young scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., were using a hornlike antenna to "listen" to the faint background hiss created by stars and other radio sources in the Milky Way galaxy. What they picked up was a faint echo of the creation, the remnant of the cataclysmic fireball, or Big Bang, that gave birth to the universe 15 to 20 billion years...
...longest-serving member of the Kenya National Assembly, arap Moi is known as "the father of the House" - a pallid echo of Kenyatta's favorite title, "the father of the nation." Says one Western diplomat in Nairobi: "The man's no Kenyatta. But it's rather like the American system of choosing a fairly ordinary guy whom quite a lot of people respect and few really hate...
Count Fonda as a master of masters in precision timing, vocal inflection and revelatory comic gestures. Aside from that, Fonda is part of the nation's memory bank. When he walks on a stage, his footsteps echo with all the roles he has played in theater and films for four decades. Playgoers are not only in his corner; he is indelibly in their hearts. Alexander is not in his league, but neither is her part. To the role of Chief Justice, Larry Gates brings an authoritative gravity of presence. Too bad he cannot dismiss this flimsy dramatic case...
Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...
...autocratic as she can be," charges conservative State Senator Hubert Leon ("Bill") Richardson, who launched the campaign to unseat her. Richardson accuses the judge of poor administration and using judicial appointments to consolidate her own political power. Off the record, a few of her colleagues on the court echo the last complaint. Of Bird's practice of using lower court judges to fill temporary vacancies on the supreme court, one justice says: "There's power building here, and it's under the heading of experimentation...