Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loonies, the climax came with a minute left and Cornell's win assured. A particularly crazed student he must have been known to the crowd beforehand--stood to lead a well coordinated and amazingly loud chant of "Which team is the winning team? Which team is the losing team...
...easily spotted as an unhappy Harvard fan at an exposed press desk in a student section, the climax came at the buzzer, when crumpled newspapers flew over my head onto the ice and I was nailed by a well-aimed, half-eaten banana...
...question. The climax of their debate coincided with events that dramatized the relevance of their talks: a change of leadership in the Soviet Union, the passage of various nuclear referendums at this month's elections, and crucial discussions on U.S. defense spending...
...statement released last week, at the climax of the 1982 election campaign, is not the work of activists campaigning for the nuclear freeze resolutions that are on the ballot in nine states, nor of Democrats who have been trying to make the Reagan Administration's arms control policies an issue. "The Challenge of Peace" is a draft of a proposed pastoral letter to the nation's 51 million Roman Catholics, prepared by a committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (N.C.C.B.). By addressing not only the moral and theological dimensions of nuclear arms, but also the political...
That speech came as a climax to a late night vigil at Socialist election headquarters in Madrid's Palace Hotel. A crowd of some 4,000 applauded as results were flashed on a giant 30-ft. color-television screen outside the hotel. Party workers sent up occasional chants of "Felipe, Presidentel Felipe, Presidente!" while other supporters converged on the capital's main square, singing, dancing and hugging one another. One grizzled workingman with a red bandanna on his neck embraced a well-wisher with tears in his eyes and announced hoarsely, "España socialista!" Overall, however...