Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the author of the short-circuit plan wondered "if Conant is aware of the situation" is proof enough that the Council's move is a last-ditch affair; by taking such a position, Council members have risked an anti-climax that may kill the controversy for good. We hope that, better versed in Sociology, they will reverse last Monday's vote and return to the dull but more effective realm of proper channels...
...another idea: inexpensive, five-minute films, each telling what he called "a complete O. Henry-type story." A typical one is Patsy, about a parish priest who suspects that one of his boys is a hold-up man because he suddenly begins to flash a lot of money. The climax and happy ending: the priest learns that the boy earned the money as a professional boxer, fighting under an assumed name...
This hour-long escape sequence achieves a rising level of suspense as Howard uses his espionage training in car stealing, judo, passport forging, and disguise to foil both the police and his fellow agents. In the Liverpool warehouse climax villainy gets its gory reward, and "Clouded Yellow" establishes itself as unusually good entertainment...
...them in his shirt sleeves, and announced that he was feeling as fit as ever. But he could feel a few twinges that told him "old age is creeping up." Therefore, he had decided to give up the presidency he had occupied since 1915. Then, in a fitting climax to his roaring, dictatorial career, he announced the founding of U.S. labor's first big-time dynasty. His successor: son Maurice Hutcheson, 54, the carpenters' first vice president...
...climax, in one way or another, will be the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...