Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, adapted by Gore Vidal...
Tanimoto's early years-his conversion to Christianity, his studies in the U.S. for the ministry, his onetime congregation in California-led to a climax. He was at Hiroshima when the bomb dropped. Somber, inscrutable, he told what happened at that catastrophic moment and how afterwards, not wounded himself, he helped survivors. Then a young man was brought on stage whom Tanimoto had never before seen. He was introduced as Captain Robert Lewis, U.S.A.F., the copilot of the 6-29. Enola Gay, that dropped the bomb. After a slight hesitation, the two men shook hands. Then Lewis, now personnel...
...vicious slander campaign threatened the existence of the WAAC, reaching its climax when New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell wrote (falsely) that WAACs were being issued contraceptives because "Mrs. Roosevelt wants all the young ladies to have the same overseas rights as their brothers and fathers...
...Climax! (Thurs...
...historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para-Methodist, established egg rolling on the White House lawn. Before his time, children had rolled their eggs down the Capitol slopes as a climax to their annual Sunday School Union parades, but Congress was fussy about its grass, and ordered them off the premises in 1877. Hayes welcomed them to the White House grounds. By the first Administration of Grover Cleveland, the annual egg roll had been souffleed to its present overwhelming routine...