Word: crescendos
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...future of France depends upon your tenacity. Hold tight to the soil of France. . . . Look only forward." People who saw him in action described him as going about his work methodically at a kitchen table in a whitewashed room of a cottage near the front. As the battle reached crescendo, he declared to his men: "The enemy has suffered considerable losses. Soon he will reach the end of his effort...
...President listened to Congress, to the people. The drumfire from Europe reached crescendo. He left the White House for an evening afloat on the Potomac. He played with his stamps, "did some think ing." He called in the civilians and officers who assist him in running the Navy and Army: Secretaries Edison (due to go soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations...
...Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses of Gallipoli were his responsibility as First Lord of the Admiralty, and Parisians feared last week that Mr. Churchill and Herr Hitler would soon be competing in a swiftly rising crescendo of blood & thunder...
...ball. It seemed eternity before the announcer spoke: a fly, high into right field-Cullenbine took it just in front of the bleachers. Then came Goodman, a dangerous batter in a tight spot. The first was high and inside. Then the announcer's voice rose to a deafening crescendo. "Folks it's a no-hitter!" Old Tex Carleton, 33, and recently resurrected from the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, had mown down the mighty Reds...
Cozy is a marvelous drummer, noted especially for his amazingly powerful press roll, that being a steady roll gotten by sticks on a snare drum, with a snap that gives it a swell lift. Listen to records like "Ratamacue" and "Crescendo in Drums" by Cab on Vocalion or "Shufflin' at The Hollywood" (Victor-Lionel Hampden) and you'll get the general idea...