Word: crescendo
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...Guns. Now the planes are gone. The warships have moved in closer, firing a crescendo of destruction that makes anything before seem mild. We are only minutes away from starting the run. Now the LCLs ahead start to move in slowly, just ahead and to the left of the first wave of amphibious tanks. Those LCLs are firing like coked-up gangsters in a grade-B movie. Rockets go thump, thump, thumping out of them and bursting along the shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many...
...booming crescendo of Allied guns in Normandy and central Italy might sound to many European musicians like Beethoven's "Fate knocking at the door...
Squatting on mats, the villagers watched, chanted, beat out rhythms on packing boxes, joined the stylized, immemorial South Sea steps. The tempo rose to crescendo. Then beyond the fringe of lamplight sounded whistles of applause. But these were native whistlers, not American gate-crashers. For U.S. troops the villages of British Tarawa are out of bounds...
...action in Wednesday's encounter built up slowly from an inauspicious start, reaching a crescendo in the fourth and overtime periods. At the end of the first quarter the Navy boys had piled up a 12-8 lead mostly on the basis of the pivot play of their center, Gordinier. He amassed three personal fouls in a short time, however, and was replaced early in the second period...
...fifth wave milled around in what had turned into broad daylight. Now the naval gunfire mounted to an unbelievable crescendo of thunder, smoke and fire. Then came the planes, dropping big bombs, little bombs, incendiary bombs. Wave after wave after wave of torpedo-bombers and dive-bombers from carriers crossed and crisscrossed Betio. Offshore, the rough sea tossed the Higgins craft and drenched the Marines and their weapons...