Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Events swept to a climax in a single day. Ostensibly to bid goodbye on the eve of a four-week Italian vacation, Adenauer went to see outgoing President Theodor Heuss, 75, who has served the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. For two hours the two elders talked about the role of the presidency. That night at home, Adenauer talked heart to heart with his son Paul until midnight. Next morning he complained that he had hardly slept-but he had made his decision...
Landau came back to defeat Roesler in the low hurdles, but it was left for Gordon to climax the meet. After a succession of good Army legs and poor Crimson stick passes had given the Cadets what looked like a secure 12-yard lead, Gordon overhauled Grant Schaefer in another stirring finish for the Crimson's final five points...
...Radcliffe Development Fund has reached a total of $4,804,000, National Chairman Robert I. Hunneman '28, announced yesterday at the climax of "Radcliffe Panorama," an all-day program celebrating Radcliffe's 80th birthday. The gift of $657,133 from the estate of Mrs. Georgine Holmes Thomas means the Fund is now a year ahead of its ten-year schedule to raise $10 million...
...signatures, Turner started to read: "Regretting the innovations already being introduced and fearing that further mutilations will take place when the copyright expires in the Year of our Lord 1961, we . . . humbly pray that steps will be taken to perpetuate the copyrights in some public cultural body . . ." Occasion: the climax of a four-year campaign by Oxford's Dorothy May Alderley, 72, to preserve the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan from modern desecration...
...Christ's head began to rise. "And an angel appeared," said the voice. Suddenly a spotlight flashed on to catch a daub of silicone paint on one of the figure's lower eyelids, to give the illusion of a glistening tear. The show reached its smash climax with the sudden illumination of six papier-mache choirboys singing a hymn...