Word: crescendoe
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...built-in defense against continuous exposure to loud noise: he goes partially deaf. Before that, however, he may well suffer headaches, heart flutter, and even ulcers. What can be done to quiet the crescendo that is rising every year? New York City has an answer. It has just passed the toughest noise code in the nation...
...London police were questioning an American who had tried to buy a watch with Andre Previn's credit card. The suspect produced an orchestration of Previn's identity papers along with a crescendo of protests. At length the detective in charge went through the motions of dismissing him. As the man turned to leave, the officer said casually, "By the way, that Vaughan Williams piece you played last week on television-was that his seventh symphony or his eighth?" The suspect stared at the detective for one slack-jawed moment. Then in disgust he threw up his hands...
...Crescendo. Under the commission's present limits, a company that has raised its prices during Phase II may not increase its margins-that is, profits as a percentage of sales-above what they were in a certain base period. The base is the average of the best two years between 1968 and 1970. Many a corporate chieftain deeply wants to be out from under those constraints because earnings are rolling in faster than they have in years...
...strong surge is a healthy economic sign, it is stirring a controversy over whether earnings are growing too fast, especially for a controlled period in which wages are not expanding nearly as rapidly. The argument is bound to become louder as the election approaches and will probably reach a crescendo next year, when an exceptionally high number of contracts with important unions are due to be renegotiated, including those of the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers...
...lifeblood. Miller astutely recognizes that the purpose of tyranny is not to scourge the guilty but to crush the free. A tyranny must wipe out its most dangerous enemy-one man who will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow, his children fatherless. For a long moment he is tempted, and then he looks into an abyss darker than the loss of his life...