Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter, and at the climax of the attempt discovers the long-sought passage to the summit...
...shake in a Harvard-Yale contest. The desire for victory is always strong in The Game, and the Bulldogs will be out to avenge last year's 1-0 defeat at the hands of the varsity. For the senior-studded Harvard eleven, a win today would be a fitting climax to a surprisingly successful season...
...seemed to have a special tantalizing humdrum something. This was not the day Lincoln was shot or Normandy was invaded, not the day Pearl Harbor was bombed or Fort Sumter was fired on. What this day was (and few would know it until it moved to its inexorable climax) was the most uneventful Thursday in American history...
...fault is to be found, it lies in the rather contrived climax. But even this mars Mon Petit only superficially...
...Center Ken Klinebub snatched a Bruin pass on the 40 and pushed to the 20-yard line; and after the officials called back a touchdown run on the next play because of illegal use of hands, Hatch tried again. He scored on an off-tackle play to put the climax to a 20-6 triumph...