Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of undersea detection, highly developed in World War II, employing easily focused high-frequency sound waves near the upper edge of the audible range. A large object in the water sends back an echo; its distance from the submarine is computed by timing the echo...
...occasion she made the show complete by putting on her spectacles, reading her notes and screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect me to be funny, so I'm funny...
Even as hospitals go, Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital is not a light-hearted place. Its corridors never echo with the happy sounds of a maternity ward. No one is there because of minor ailments or for a good rest. Most of the patients know that their chances of recovery, though somewhat better every year, are poor indeed. Visitors passing through the lobby often look stunned by grief. Memorial is a tragic place because its patients are victims of cancer...
Last week the Metropolitan's joy was raising a sorrowful echo in Rome. Sebastian, it appeared, had belonged to the family of a Fascist nobleman, Count Francesco de Larderel, who fled Florence ahead of the liberation. Charging that the picture had been illegally smuggled out of Italy, the Italian government asked the U.S. State Department's help in tracing the story down...
...shoved off the bottom step of Lamont, wheeled around the corner, and headed for Mass. Avenue. Behind him he heard the whisper of raincoats and the echo of two pairs of footsteps. One of them was wearing high heels. She was laughing comfortably and mumbling just low enough so that he couldn't understand what she was saying...