Word: crescendoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just before 5 p.m. there is a barrage of artillery fire so fierce, so extensive, so positively horrifying in its intensity that Frey and I are stunned into silence. Building after building comes crashing down. Great flashes of fire light up the sky. A crescendo of noise like some dreadful thunder rolls across the city...
Washington's diplomatic campaign reached a crescendo early last week with the arrival in San Salvador of Lieut. General Vernon Walters, U.S. ambassador-at-large, and John Carbaugh, an aide to conservative Senator Jesse Helms. Meeting with the leaders of El Salvador's main political parties, Walters and Carbaugh discussed a letter from Secretary of State Alexander Haig that bluntly reiterated three conditions for continued U.S. support: 1) the formation of a government of national unity that would give the Christian Democrats power in proportion to their performance at the polls; 2) continued progress in land, economic...
Neither the fear of possible violence nor the heat sapped the enthusiasm of the housewives, laborers, students and professionals for the man they had come to support. As the preliminary speeches droned on, they began to chant his name in unison: "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" The cheers reached a crescendo as José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democrats and President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, appeared on the makeshift podium...
...that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
...passed out petitions and organized small demonstrations. Communist parties drummed up predictable anti-NATO sentiment. But gradually, as anger and fear began to take hold, the movement reached beyond its traditional constituencies, taking on a dimension that surprised even its organizers. Finally, this autumn it reached a crescendo. More than 2 million Western Europeans have demonstrated so far in the streets of the Continent's major cities?and weekend after weekend the huge parades...