Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Phase. Moving on to the climax of his week of new leadership, the President dramatically put to the U.S.S.R. what he called "a proposal to solve what I consider to be the most important problem which faces the world today." The problem: mankind's first steps into space. Said the President: "I propose that we agree that outer space should be used only for peaceful purposes. We face a decisive moment in history in relation to this matter. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. are now using outer space for the testing of missiles designed for military...
...offering Arab governments terms seemingly more generous than the standard fifty-fifty split negotiated by British and American companies. Under one such agreement, an E.N.I, subsidiary is now producing some 600,000 metric tons of oil a year in Egypt; others are exploring in Somaliland, negotiating in Morocco. The climax of Mattel's Middle East drive came last September, when, in return for a promise of 75% of profits,* the Iranian government gave him a 12,000-sq.-mi. exploratory concession, more than half of which lies just south of the highly productive Qum fields...
...national ecclesiastical controversy by contending that it is heresy to believe in the possibility of salvation for anyone outside the Roman Catholic Church. The debate reached its climax in February, 1953, when the Vatican excommunicated the priest and all of his followers...
From then on it is easy. The wily Howe and the sturdy cripple combine to fashion a comeback, and the younger man continues to grow until the climax of his nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924. Bellamy now shows a Roosevelt who retains the sharpness that had given him profound early successes, but has learned to temper it with patience...
...that looked like a wafer machine) that no two capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony: a slide demonstrating how staphylococci, which can be destroyed by antibiotics, actually proliferated and prospered when treated with Stalinon...