Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around now the far and near echo of more voices grew and swelled until it seemed to beat solidly against the fronts of the big buildings in the long diagonal Terazia. From the two main avenues and from every side street the masses of people poured in and converged, separated and converged again until the huge diagonal held 6,000, later 10,000, 40,000 shouting, singing Serbian men and women...
...Hague Conference. No churchgoer himself, he never thought to blame the failure of all the peace conferences he attended on lack of Christianity until he set out to draft a practical set of principles on which a peace conference might succeed. To his surprise, he found them an echo of Christianity, so back to the church he went. Said he last week...
...witnesses, letting them offer the evidence, injecting no opinions of his own. He merely sees that their stories are told with absorbing clarity. Unforgettable are such scenes as the spanning of Kane's first marriage in a single conversation, the silly immensity of the castle halls which echo the flat whines of Susan...
...climbed behind the wheel and started off. Some 48 hours later, after stealing two more cars (one a policeman's with a .38-calibre revolver inside), after sleeping one night in a sand pit, one night in a dog kennel, they stopped at last at Echo Lake-a small, boarded-up summer resort where frame cottages stood cold and bleak in the New Jersey woods. They broke a window in one, hid until dark, ransacked others that night. Now they were well fixed. They found canned food, soup, beans, four .22-calibre rifles, one .410-gauge single-barreled shotgun...
Sunday and Monday passed. Early Monday evening a woman reported to police that two boys, who certainly didn't belong in the neighborhood, had been seen walking down the road with rifles over their shoulders. Three officers began investigating Echo Lake, thought they saw a light. As one started for the door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant...