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Word: climaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing is overdone--this is the picture's main virtue. Music is only inserted at the few climax points in the flashbacks. The photography is documentary in style, carefully avoiding the overgloomy...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

...Cynical Hoax." Labor's manifesto made it plain that the argument over wage controls was only the climax of "a whole series of shocking developments which we find insupportable." Ever since mobilization began to take shape, labor's nose had been out of joint. The price program was "a cynical hoax"; the wage program was "inflexible, inequitable and unworkable"; the tax program bore down on the working man, favored corporations and the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Manifesto | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...total of only four penalties were called, two on each team, in the crowd-pleasing contest that reached its feverish climax late in the final period. Cole had 25 saves and Corning...

Author: By Malcolm STRACHAN Ii, ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR, DAILY PRINCETON | Title: Princeton Beats Crimson in Hockey Game by One Point | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...climax of the counter offensive in 1918 when the Italians under Diaz rallied, drove back and destroyed the invading forces of Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Man with the Answers | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Most Important Man. The climax of the show brought the President out of his mood of beaming good humor with a start. When Mrs. Alben Barkley wheeled onstage "the most important man in the U.S.," Pfc. Anthony Troilo, 25, who had lost both legs in Korea, Harry Truman was the first man on his feet, grim-jawed and clapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Time for Firmness | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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