Word: crescendoed
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...claimed this week that bombings of enemy territory, which continued at a crescendo, were according to a "master plan" drawn up by Air Chief Sir Charles Portal when he was with the bomber command. This program sent bombers out systematically after oil plants, armament factories, airports, docks, naval bases, railroad lines, freight yards, barge concentrations, shipping. It concentrated on bottlenecks. Though Germany is comparatively well supplied with aluminum, the R. A. F. went all-out for aluminum factories, to keep the Germans from using the metal as a substitute for copper, of which Germany has very little...
...Jennie Jerome of New York City, American in his directness but otherwise British as bully beef, last week spoke in a crescendo of confidence. Winston Churchill's blood is half American but when it begins to boil, a chemistry of ancient loyalties makes it all British-exultant, proud, superior, unbeatable even in defeat. Members of Parliament, their war nerves crying for a tonic, cheered as the Prime Minister bucked them with sentence after bracing sentence...
...Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo boats based just across the water in sight of Britain's headlands. Last week the attacks reached crescendo...
...make the nation's songs, the people who hum, whistle and sing them, the musicians who play them, last week made music that swelled and surged in a crescendo of patriotic feeling. As the sounds from millions of radios, home phonographs, jukeboxes soared over the seaboards, plains, mountains of the U. S., Walt Whitman might again have said, "I hear America singing." The U. S. was singing, as it had not done in years, of pride in its past, of hope in its future...
Last week a crescendo of war talk swept over U. S. campuses. Commencement speakers dismissed their graduates with words of alarm, caution, doom...