Word: crescendos
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Before the week was out, the buzz-buzz in Ohio was amplified to a crescendo by another tidbit: Governor Lausche flew from Washington to Seattle in the presidential plane with Dwight Eisenhower. Surely, the pundits reasoned, the President and the governor talked about what everyone else in Ohio was talking about. Suppose they came to an agreement...
...tolled 11, the hoof beats ceased. Four hundred boys' voices soared into the great crescendo of Sir Hubert Parry's anthem: "I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the House of the Lord...
Company by company. Historian Marshall describes the tragedy of defeat. The crescendo is reached in the last 80 pages, which describe the pullout of what was left of the 2nd Division. By this time it was every man for himself. For six miles, men and vehicles ran a one-road gauntlet lined by steep hills occupied by the Chinese. The valley became a shooting gallery and a common grave. Heroism was as common as death, but heroism was not enough. What broke out of the gauntlet was perhaps the most completely smashed division in U.S. military history...
...sacrifices plot continuity for frightening suspense. He saves the plot with a police-room discussions of former passions but weakens fifteen minutes of the film. Fortunately, after this the action picks up markedly. And except for an overlong comfroom scene, the film is again highly exciting, reaching a splendid crescendo with a chase through the halls of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac...
...management tells them to try the week-night open rehearsals. But these are mere paste-and-scissors concerts which always subordinate the satisfaction of the audience to the preparation of the music for the weekend main event. And even if the orchestra is in the middle of a Beethoven crescendo, union rules make the musicians stop the music at ten o'clock and walk out on their audience...