Word: crescendoe
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...nervous wreck when he watched them in action-Lapchick brought New York's St. John's University to national prominence in the '30s and '40s, then in the 1950s made championship contenders out of the mediocre professional New York Knickerbockers. He ended with a crescendo as he began, returning to St. John's in 1956 and rebuilding until 1964-65, his last season before retiring. That year St. John's won both the Holiday Festival and the National Invitation Tournament...
...rose to a crescendo last week as the last U.S. troops swept happily back into South Viet Nam. The President took to television for an unprecedented live, hour-long foreign-policy conversation with three network anchormen. He issued a 7,000-word White Paper justifying the Cambodian operation. This came atop public and private hard sells by Vice President Spiro Agnew and other White House and Cabinet officials; among their efforts was a four-hour briefing of television executives and publishers that produced a 49-page transcript...
...allegedly handcuff cops, and beyond the constant risk of sudden death in defense of unappreciative citizens. Nor is the real trouble the continuing emergence of new social abrasions?the mushrooming growth of hard-drug addiction, the bombings of urban buildings (four embassies in Washington were blasted last week), the crescendo of riots and demonstrations unmatched since the 1930s...
When a virgin and a gypsy meet in fiction, one of them is due for alteration. Observing the classic literary conventions, Director Christopher Miles causes a dam to break during the sexual crescendo. At the finale, Yvette turns a smoothly tapered back on her family, climbs into Mrs. Fawcett's roadster and motors into the 20th century...
Last fall, when antiwar protest was reaching a crescendo, President Nixon refused to buckle. Instead, he rallied his Silent Majority, promoted his Vietnamization policy, and watched the opposition deflate. This spring he is attempting the same. Though the ferocity of the outcry over Cambodia rattled the Administration, the White House is still determined to ride it out. As American troops come out of Cambodia, Nixon hopes, the issue will become increasingly academic...