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Word: echoing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likes to get them to do harmonies. "Okay," he says, "all you folks with the high voices sing like this...And you with the low voices, you can go like this." In a way, it's as if he longed for the voices of the old Weavers to echo in front of him. More likely, his real desire is to get people to enjoy themselves, and to give them that religious feeling of fraternity which he (correctly) feels they want...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Pete Seeger's Goose Ain't Dead | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

...sounds of shattering champagne bottles will echo through shipyards from Bath, Me., to San Diego. Last month Commerce Department officials signed the two biggest commercial shipbuilding contracts in U.S. history. Both were for new types of ships called LNG tankers, which will carry huge quantities of liquefied natural gas from Algeria and perhaps Russia. One of the orders, for $269 million, went to General Dynamics; the federal share, which is less for advanced-technology ships like LNGS than for other models, is $64 million. The other order, for $298 million (federal share: $76 million) was bagged by Newport News Shipbuilding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: A Blue-Water Building Boom | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...enough. She offers accounts of breakdowns and highway fatigue, as well as side trips to the Hershey chocolate factory, a Cherokee reservation and an old-people's settlement. Emily Brimberg Johnson passes many other promising, culturally depressed outposts, too, where the heavy irony is dutifully clanged but no echo sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Collection | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

News broadcasts of national affairs, which seem to have been a particular irritant to the White House, will be minimized under Loomis' guidelines. In a near-perfect echo of Vice President Agnew, he is particularly opposed to a newsman's coming on after a televised speech to offer his commentary on what has just been said. "Frankly," he says, "I think 'instant analysis' is lousy because the commentator who is sitting there hasn't had a chance to think." He is not opposed, however, to local stations airing local controversies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Novice for Public TV | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...liberty taken with the final movement of the Handel was providing a chorus to intone the chorale upon which the movement is based. Since diction was near impossible given the echo, instrumental forces, and small number of singers, the effect was that of another organ coloration--a true vox humana--being added...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Baroque Organ Dedication | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

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