Word: echo
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Author Gordon's fictional echo, with alterations, of the 1946 lynchings near Monroe, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946), two people weren't content to let the case rest. One of them was Melady, a New York reporter who had covered the intimidation trial. The other was Nathan Hamilton, husband of one of the victims. Up North when the verdict came, Nathan packed a Luger in his bag and started south...
...Congress neared the end of the long push on the nation's spending program for fiscal 1951, a level Southern voice echoed through the House's chamber. It was an echo which would haunt every home, farm and business in the nation. Lean,, black-browed Congressman George Mahon of Colorado City, Texas, was telling his colleagues last week that they had only begun to spend the people's money...
...Saigon last week, the French language newspaper Echo du Viet Nam, semi-official organ of the Viet Nam government, published the details of a massive military aid program undertaken by Red China on behalf of Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces in Indo-China...
...independence in other countries have been crushed to produce subservient puppet governments-zombie governments that breathe and speak and act, but have no soul.* The United Nations tried to peer through the mists that enshroud this regime. Nothing could be seen. The only voice that was heard was an echo of a greater voice that had come rolling and rumbling across steppe and tundra and mountain from a faraway place...
...magnetized surfaces. It took a considerable time to recall them and put them to use. SEAC does its remembering with long tubes filled with mercury. Sound waves coded to represent numbers shoot through the tubes. When they reach the far end, electric repeaters bat them back again. The numbers echo back & forth in the mercury until they are needed in the machine's computations. Then they can be "brought to mind" in 168 millionths of a second...