Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matches were the climax of a 10-week trip to Great Britain, a trip which included matches against many English country clubs and the Royal Army, Navy, and Air Force. The Harvard-Yale team compiled a 15-3-1 record, with one contest rained...
...social advantage manages to show him sympathy because he is quite unlike anyone she has met before. Straining against their destinies--his to own a dozen sullen Manhattan towers by denial of himself, hers to marry the man she went to college to catch--they move to a furious climax where her hateful tease confronts his buried desire...and to their little death together...
...Imperial Records actually brought out the first hoop disk (Hula Hoop) on the West Coast last June, but the craze had not yet reached its shimmying climax, and the record failed to take...
...news came as the climax to a year that had seen 695 terrorists killed, captured or cajoled into surrender, leaving only an estimated 600 guerrillas in the jungles after ten years of guerrilla war. In flushing the terrorists out, the government had resorted to an extraordinary tactic. "If money can buy the end of the emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back...
...border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This policy reaches a hilarious climax one night when Amy's father barks at a prim, sleep-dazed old lady babysitter: "You must be stinking, Mrs. Henlein . . . You drank a full quart of gin." When his little girl tries to run away from home, the father, who is always going off on business trips, wonders...