Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With growing troubles at home, the Cuban government showed its unease by relaxing for the moment its word war with the U.S. President Osvaldo Dorticós, a reliable echo chamber for Castro, spoke about repairing relations with the U.S. Castro himself struck an unaccustomed note: "Perhaps by temperament many of us like battle more than tranquil life. Nevertheless when we have on our shoulders a responsibility like we have today, we strive to be above all passions." Brother Raul chimed in: "It is not our desire to be at war. One day we will see these weapons converted into...
Like the creak of wheels on a horse-drawn cart or the dry wheeze of a hand-cranked auto engine, the familiar ring-a-ling of the telephone will soon be only an echo of the past. The telephone of the future will emit four staccato baritone beeps-and this week, in the homes of 300 residents of Morris, Ill., a farming center 75 miles southwest of Chicago, the beep of tomorrow could already be heard. Using Morris as a pilot project, Bell Telephone Laboratories have installed telephones that...
...With majestic mien the New York Times proclaimed Kennedy's election. An answering echo came from California where Kennedy was maintaining a steady 50,000 lead: the pro-Nixon San Francisco Examiner announced that Kennedy had carried the state and the nation. Even so, the result still was not official, and Nixon was conceding nothing. Ohio's Democratic Governor Mike Di Salle, who went hook, line and sinker for Kennedy, still could not believe that Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota...
Although the area gave Elsenhower a smashing majority in 1956, people are listening for an echo of the New Deal, and Kennedy brought it. "If you feel at a minimum wage of $1.25 is extreme," he told the crowds, "Mr. Nixon is your...
...gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when the teeth are not brushed correctly; some are as awe-inspiring as the purposeful arc of Echo threading its way through the stars. For the housewife, the worker on the production line, and the executive in his office, the outpouring of new inventions has provided more time to pursue dozens of new interests at leisure-and a choice of hundreds more new products to make leisure time more...