Word: crescendoed
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...Westport Academy by celebrating "all these bright shining faces of young people wanting to learn how to be good, solid citizens." He continued the string of hackneyed phrases for ten minutes, but the vigor and excitement of his voice triumphed in the end, and the students awarded him a crescendo of sincere applause...
...bravely borne defeat. And it is just this-the rich lyric feeling of Irish patriotism-that is the real subject of Michael Farrell's evocative novel of the growth to manhood of Matthew Martin Reilly during the worst of the Irish troubles as they rose to a crescendo at the time of World...
...Senator races breathlessly through his 171-page narrative, treating every possible political topic--from foreign aid to mental health--and capping each rhetorical flourish with a crescendo of statistics: "Exports now account for 4 per cent of our gross national product. The six countries of the European Common Market export 12 per cent of theirs--three times our rate. Other countries do better." Rarely does he stop to elaborate the data, to consider for example the obvious fact that not all countries need export the same percentage of their output...
...Lyndon. Negro Comedian Dick Gregory, working at the Crescendo in Los Angeles, has entered the campaign too. "You know when I found out that Goldwater is square? When he called Lyndon Johnson Ivy League." And, "I'm going to vote for Johnson in November, if for no other reason than that he talks like us." Goldwater? "He's the only cat who could stand on the Israel border and get shot at from both sides...
...York Yankees were losing four of their first five games-the first faint notes of a haunting melody. It grew steadily in volume through the summer, while the Orioles and the Chicago White Sox jockeyed back and forth for the lead. Last week it reached its shimmering, cymbalistic crescendo as all three teams entered the last, climactic month of the 1964 baseball season, locked in a death-or-derring-do battle for the American League pennant. Call it the year the American League made a game out of baseball again...