Word: echoing
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...words echo Ali's youthful braggadocio; the prediction seems merely reasonable. Lewis, who turns 22 this week, possesses powers far from their peak. But he may already be the premier track and field athlete of his generation-the modern equivalent of his idol, Jesse Owens. Last year Lewis jumped nearly 30 ft., but fouled by an undetectable whisker. Meanwhile, track watchers are already muttering about...
...have for national and local punk and hardcore mavens. It packs in a lot of people, but it is a real dive, and is not recommended to those allergic to excessive sweat and flying bodies Slam dancers, take note of dates set for the Anti-Nowhere League, UB40, and Echo and the Bunnymen...
...glorious cacophony of playwrights' voices, of eloquent agnostics fulminating like defrocked prelates, debating the fate of modern man with irony and rant. This line of dramatists began not with John Osborne but with Bernard Shaw, and at the end of a ranter's play the theatergoer should echo the fond last words of Shaw's Man and Superman: "Go on talking...
...author tips his hat to Sir Arthur early on. The name of his medieval detective, William of Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His companion and disciple is called Adso, or in French, Adson, as in the phrase "Elementary, my dear Adson...
Citing Kenyatta's letter, Dean of the Law School James A. Vorenberg '49 criticizes the boycotters, calling their protest a reverse-racist personal attack on the white teacher of the class. Jack Greenberg, Director General of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Columnists around the country echo this analysis...