Word: crescendoe
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City campaigns traditionally perk up after Labor Day, as the sidewalks cool and the voters start spending their weekends at home. The past week saw the start of a political crescendo leading towards the November 3 municipal election. Candidates are pounding doors and pavements, swigging coffee in living rooms, and turning out at gatherings like Saturday's festival of Saints Cosimo and Damiano in East Cambridge...
Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, the most watchable basketball player of the past 16 years, has begun to say goodbye to cities: Portland, Seattle, Oakland, Phoenix. At final stops along the Philadelphia 76ers' way, home teams have been introducing their own players first in order to build a crescendo for Dr. J, the National Basketball Association star who plays for everyone...
While Whitehead testified, Reagan said from the White House, "I didn't make any mistakes" and declared that "I'm not firing anybody." The president then sat down with members of his Cabinet and top advisers to weigh new moves, amid a crescendo of calls by members of Congress for a White House shakeup...
...most extraordinary bargaining session in the history of arms control was reaching a crescendo. For almost two days, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had continued to up the ante. Now, as night closed in on Hofdi house, the "grand compromise" was in sight. But the whole startling package of proposals was hanging on the Soviet insistence that Star Wars research be confined to the laboratory. Ronald Reagan made a last-ditch appeal to Mikhail Gorbachev. He declared he had made a pledge to the American people not to trade away SDI. "Please," Reagan said...
...other was so shunned by the Harvard community that he was forced to change his schedule completely and enter a side door. He never spoke to an open audience or accomplished what he came to do. The uproar over the whole affair reached a crescendo seldom seen here...