Word: crescendo
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...brought Page Two writers out of their shells. A generally neutral attitude toward the European conflagration during the first half of 1915 evolved into an ardent "preparedness" stand when the next board took office. Pro-Allied feeling grew in a crescendo up to the eve of United States involvement when the Crimson refused to print any more "Communications" from pacifists...
Schwieger marked every page of everyone's music, noted the fingering and position for the stringed instruments, marked the upbows and downbows, indicated whether he wanted a phrase played at the tip of the bow or at the lower part. He marked every crescendo and diminuendo for the brasses. Then he sent his musicians home to practice their individual parts. Later each section of the orchestra rehearsed together, while Schwieger went from one room to another, coaching first the violins, then the woodwinds. Pay didn't start until the orchestra came together for full rehearsal...
...surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
...first really effective use of internal monologue. At worst, he goes so far with the trick of building intensity through reiteration that it recalls Fred Allen's parody of Norman Corwin: a poetic drama about Jack & Jill in which a cheering section of inner voices, in accelerating crescendo, badger the heroine with "Jill Jacobowsky, Jill-Jacobowsky Jill-Jacobowsky JILL-JACOBOWSKY...
...important and astounding fact is that in 1944, the year in which the crescendo of war mounted to a thunderous climax, the [civilian] American consumer . . . was furnished with more goods and services than in any year since...