Word: crescendo
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...Crescendo. Manuel Quezon knew that any help for the Philippines must come from the U.S. In 1909 he wangled his way to Washington as Philippine Resident Commissioner. Osmeña opposed the move; Quezon went anyway. Seven years later he returned to Manila with the Jones Act in his pocket, giving the Philippines a two-house elective legislature and more independence than ever before. Quezon, national hero, became president of the Senate; Osmeña remained as Speaker of the House...
...would be wise to cancel the lease and reconvert The Kelly to tires. Other ordnance plants took on The Kelly's orders, and just 12 days after the deal was made, the first workers were laid off. Within two weeks, the layoffs will jump to 2,000, will crescendo until, in three weeks, the payroll will be slashed approximately 75%, leaving the basic staff needed to install tiremaking equipment, 1,200 men. On Oct. 1, The Kelly quits making ammunition, starts on tires...
...invasion had been smoothed by ferocious air bombardment of Sicily's airdromes, ports and supply lines. The real pounding had started on June 11, the very day that the outpost island Pantelleria went groggy and collapsed under the rain of bombs. It had gone on in a sonorous crescendo, rising to a peak in the final week when the big Axis air base at Gerbini caught 20 full-scale raids in one day, and targets were so much in demand that American Liberators politely timed their arrival overhead for the exact moment when British Wellingtons were completing their business...
...complaints that the catalogue has engendered already, and those which will crescendo in force as more summer study cards receive serious attention, center in the scientific branches of instruction. Premedical students lament their inability to complete requirements as hopefully planned. Physics, biology, and chemistry majors air grievances of conflicting lab and lecture hours, and of irreconcilable examination groups. The uninitiated to curricular complexities moan because the catalogue is too thin, if for no other reason...
...Hitchcock loads the most commonplace things with ominous overtones. A broken porch step, a cranky garage door, the cheerful family bickering at the dinner table, a traffic cop's scolding as the girl runs across a street to the library-these become major elements in building up a crescendo of terror...