Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election campaign moved quietly and placidly towards its climax this week the U.S. was suddenly confronted by the boldest, blackest headlines since Korea. Beneath three days of fog that sifted lightly across the Danube, the Communist satellite capital of Budapest (pop. 1,750,000) rang to the classic shouts of "Freedom of Speech!" "Freedom of Religion!" The answer, audible from the Baltic to the South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging...
Final Swing. From Arizona Adlai headed eastward for one more look at the heavily unionized population centers of the East and Midwest: Baltimore, Camden, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit. Then comes the grand climax of the whole tour: this Saturday the Chicago Democratic organization hopes to turn out half a million of the faithful for a homecoming parade, hopes to jam Chicago Stadium for a nationally televised rally and speech...
...political campaign rolled to its climax, the President of the U.S. was a calm and confident candidate. Wherever his plane or train had carried him across the land, Ike, had found full crowds, enthusiastic faces. Wherever Democrats had raised an issue to badger him, he met it quietly, succeeded (so his supporters thought) in turning it to his own advantage. Less and less White House aides discussed the presidential race, more and more they made optimistic estimates about the number of G.O.P. Congressmen who would ride in on Ike's coattails. Last week, to spread those coattails even wider...
Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
...product of the relentless discipline that characterizes everything she does, it enables her to ignore the conventional boundaries of soprano, mezzo-soprano and contralto as if they had never been created. She can negotiate the trills and arabesques of coloraturas as easily as she trumpets out a stinging dramatic climax. Like her operatic sisters of a century ago, La Callas can sing anything written for the female voice. Because of her, La Scala has revived some operas (Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Verdi's Sicilian Vespers, Cherubini's Medea) that it had not staged for years...