Word: crescendoe
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Campus cries of interference from Washington and the courts are all too familiar. But last week the level of lamentation rose to a new crescendo in the wake of two incidents. First there was the jailing, for contempt of court, of University of Georgia Education Professor James A. Dinnan, 50; second there was Washington's announcement that the University of California at Berkeley risked becoming the nation's first university to lose federal contracts in a dispute over affirmative action. Under attack in Georgia, as well as California, was one of the academic world's most sacred...
...that changed, in Cambridge and nearly every other college town, in the '60s, as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War triggered a rising crescendo of student protest. The anti-war sentiment spread from campus to city--though voters in 1967 defeated a ballot referendum urging a quick withdrawal, the city council by 1969 went on record asking for the return of U.S. troops to these shores...
...crescendo, please...
...Belleau Wood to the Argonne. He sometimes wrings from familiar historic horrors memorable touches of contrary humanity. What was it like to listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage...
Balboni's next words are drwoned out by another blast and a crescendo of car horns. Only a few of the people in the Square pay attention to the noise. The mess, the clatter and the traffic jams have become the norm and it's almost difficult to remember what the Square looked like before Big Brother started...