Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercial work. Moreover, Burroughs' computer operations are now nearing break-even. The company's 1966 sales will probably reach $500 million, net earnings will be close to $28 million, more than half again as much as the total for 1965. The sweet sound of financial success should echo for some time to come...
...objection to the royal symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that so many kings have lost their crowns but that so many still wear them...
...caps its evocation of Stevens a few lines later by mentioning "A jar in wilderness upon a hill." Unfortunately Mr. Kaitz, whatever his intent, has failed to echo Steven's typically smooth movement, so different from the ragged rhythms above. Nor could these strings of monosyllables occur in his pentameter: "His cause was meager and his flag was thin...
...scarcely worth having against an ebullient, efficient L.B.J., crumbled after putting up a feeble fight against Goldwater. By their reasoning, it was as good a time as any to exorcise the right wing's dream that it could sweep the nation by offering voters "a choice, not an echo." So disastrous was the result that the moderates are unlikely to risk relinquishing the nomination to the conservative wing again without a bruising battle...
...intelligibility and comprehension. Through experience, a pilot will hear a sentence on the left, say, slightly before he hears the same thing on the right. The reinforced tonal qualities will enable the pilot to understand instructions despite distracting noises. The delay itself is so miniscule that even an echo can be heard...