Word: crescendoe
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...crescendo of violence in the hours before the truce took effect, militants fired more than 29 rockets and Israel responded with three air and artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy day. Our commanders told us to fire off as many rockets as we could." Mohammed was injured shortly before midnight by an Israeli artillery shell two minutes after he fired his ninth rocket under a glaring full moon...
...Points on slower surfaces often have the rambling structure of a poorly written novel; points on a grass court develop like a tightly drawn short story, tense and satisfying. On grass, where he's at his best, Federer seems to perform each point like a set piece, building a crescendo to success. The way a player moves on turf, American tennis pro Andy Roddick told TIME, "is almost like a rhythm thing...
...Domestic dissatisfaction reached a crescendo last month with Tibetan protests against Chinese rule. To quell the protests, the Chinese army entered Lhasa, and began firing upon protesters, killing over 80 people. The Dalai Lama has called China’s actions a “cultural genocide...
...game plan, and I think we strayed a little bit tonight.”Even as it looked like Harvard might at least have a chance to keep the game close heading into the final period, letting in a short-handed goal at 19:34 marked the crescendo of the Bobcats’ offensive explosion.“We showed signs of maybe making a move and even going into the third two goals back, which is a lot better than three goals back,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said...
...some charmingly schmaltzy John Hughes film. The churning, guitar-warped exchange between Simms and Merritt that composes “Please Stop Dancing,” the desperately gleeful bender-banter on “Too Drunk to Dream,” and the hopelessly defiant crescendo of “I’ll Dream Alone” project a moving triptych of the death of the relationship, and, taken individually, make for some of the album’s finest songs.But “Distortion” has a few notable flaws. While Simms’ unassumingly beautiful...