Word: crescendoe
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...Even though it didn't count, I think that goal psyched us up," Kalil said. "We came back strong in the second half and we just tried to prolong our crescendo for as long as we could...
...late-'90s rock musical Rent, with its theme of pre-millennial angst, was written in that crescendo of intensity. It asks in its most famous refrain how best to measure time--"in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?" Later in the musical, the reason for measuring is articulated: "You're living in America at the end of the millennium...where it's like the Twilight Zone...
...enters its third inconclusive month, political and public battle fatigue is setting in. Washington and NATO insist their bombing crescendo is slowly but perceptibly sapping Slobodan Milosevic's power and will to fight. Their spokesmen point daily to encouraging signs: last week it was word of soldiers' desertions and scattered antiwar protests inside Yugoslavia. Allied military briefers called the strife the most interesting battle damage they have seen in weeks. Belgrade, spared bombing for days in the wake of the mistaken attack on Beijing's mission, is once again blackened by flames from allied fire...
While no election in Israel is insignificant, this one is particularly critical. Quite simply, Israel stands at a crossroads. The peace process with the Palestinians is at a stalemate. Israel's conflict in south Lebanon with the Syrian backed, Iranian-funded Hizbullah has reached a pitched crescendo. Internally, the economy is in the midst of a slippery slide, while fault-lines between religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi (Jews of European origin vs. Jews of mid-Eastern origin), political left and political right, are tremoring towards earthquake. The new prime minister will be charged with arbitrating these complex, seemingly intractable...
...just wanted to make sure that I'm okay!" Jackie relays to us. Of course. Jackie's mom is now holding up a sizable chunk of traffic and the honking horns have reached a crescendo. Mother and daughter exchange a parting kiss, and the Pathfinder takes off into the night...