Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second installment of TIME'S excerpts from Years of Upheaval, Volume 2 of Kissinger's memoirs, tells of an Administration under siege. It deals with the gathering impact of Watergate as a torrent of disclosures burst upon the nation. Then it describes Watergate's climax and America's catharsis in the premature end of the Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement...
...both knew, of course, that Nixon's authority was deteriorating daily. The issue of whether Nixon should surrender tape recordings from his office was reaching a climax at the very moment war broke out. New indictments spawned by Watergate had been handed down. Nixon was about to lose his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, in a scandal concerning alleged payoffs...
...enjoy running the anchor," the Winthrop House resident explains "By the time I get the baton the race has reached its climax and I'm in charge...
...senior year of the class of 1823 brought to a climax their animosity, their pranks and their reckless insubordination. The "Blacks" continued to inform on these antics, and the rest of the class harrassed and vexed this moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
...architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost...