Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...
Live coverage of the story's climax topped a week of news in which television scored heavily and figured intimately. President Eisenhower's special telecast on the evening of the paratrooper's flight into Little Rock carried his words to an audience that approached 100 million...
...news. The job, as he sees it, is "to know one's own prejudices and try to do the best you can to be fair." He admits to open violations of the CBS policy, notably in some sharply partisan See It Now shows on civil-liberties issues. The climax was the McCarthy show-and an uproar that produced 50,000 letters, phone calls and wires (four to one for Murrow, by CBS's count). In defense of such violations, Murrow says that "most of the time" he has forthrightly identified them as such...
...Court. Next day the Battle of Nashville moved to a climax in the courts. The first blow was struck by City Judge Andrew Doyle, who read a crushing lecture to Rabble-rouser Kasper, hauled up during the week on charges that ranged from parking in a no-parking zone through vagrancy to incitement to riot. "I consider you guilty of the lowest possible degree of vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen...
Grim, gruff John McClellan rapped the table with his gavel. Before him in the Senate caucus room sat Teamster Vice President James Riddle Hoffa, his stony face pale, his big fists flexing. It was a weary moment, the climax of 17 hours of question and evasion before McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee, during which Hoffa wriggled relentlessly over craggy points of absurdity. McClellan began to talk: "For reasons that are apparent to everyone who has followed these hearings, we have reached a point where it seems to be useless and a waste of the committee's time...