Word: crescendo
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When the American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary sang the 1960s anti-war classic, Blowin' in the Wind, at a concert in Jerusalem last week, the audience reacted with emotion. A crescendo of applause welled up as the trio reached the lines, "How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?" Mary Travers later said that she had been so choked up by the response she could hardly continue singing...
...blast, part of a crescendo of new violence in Ulster, provoked a furious reaction. In Ulster's recently formed assembly, which is still being boycotted by Roman Catholic parties, the mood among Protestants was grim. "We want to see the men responsible for this evil deed exterminated," said one. "I don't care whether they are hanged by the neck, judicially executed or shot against the wall." Catholics were also outraged. "I rise not simply in anger but also sick to the stomach at this act of barbaric cruelty," said Oliver Napier, the Catholic leader of the moderate...
...University and nuclear arms: Harvard officials had little to say about the nuclear arms race while opposition to increased defense spending was reaching a crescendo last winter and early last spring. But in his Commencement address. President Bok outlined a new mission for the University's professors: to help guide debate by making their work on the subject more widely available. As a result of the President's personal drive, five professors are now writing a book on related issues...
...University and nuclear arms: Harvard officials had little to say about the nuclear arms race while opposition to increased defense spending was reaching a crescendo last winter and early last spring. But in his Commencement address. President Bok outlined a new mission for the University's professors: to help guide debate by making their work on the subject more widely available. As a result of the President's personal drive, five professors are now writing a book on related issues...
...University and nuclear arms: Harvard officials had little to say about the nuclear arms race while opposition to increased defense spending was reaching a crescendo last winter and early last spring. But in his Commencement address. President Bok outlined a new mission for the University's professors: to help guide debate by making their work on the subject more widely available. As a result of the President's personal drive, five professors are now writing a book on related issues...