Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gary Cooper withholds comment on Hanna's fate, and pouts enigmatically to the climax, when he and his partner face each other across the dusty expanse of a SuperScope screen, hands clawing expectantly over their holsters...
Actually it was only the beginning of the term that was bad. Frank White ran a reverse one November afternoon and threw to Bob Cochran to climax a brilliant team effort over Yale and give the Crimson its first Big Three title since 1946. The sudden change of fortune on the gridiron apparently was too much for the Band's big bass drum, however, for the silent partner to the latest Crimson victories expired with the term...
...climax of Gulda's third visit to the U.S. since his ill-fated arrival in 1950. At the age of ten, in Vienna. Gulda was impressed into a Hitler Youth group, and that was enough under the McCarran Internal Security Act to land him on Ellis Island. After a protest storm in the press Gulda finally played-to rave reviews-and took the next plane home. His political history cleared up, he later gave about 200 concerts on tours of the U.S., Europe and South America...
Radioactive Rumors. Keeping his find to himself, Shepherd began buying leases and options on land in Nowata County and started negotiations to buy from Whitehill Oil Corp. several thousand acres where he had found radioactive filters. But two weeks ago that deal fell through. Reason: Climax Molybdenum Co., one of the nation's biggest uranium producers, bought Whitehill-and rumors started running around Wall Street of a big uranium find. In a declining market (see below), Climax stock scooted up six points, to 63¾. Climax, which already has an active waterflood oil division, insisted that it bought Whitehill...
...Climax acted fast. It flew one of its top uranium geologists out to Nowata, and hired a fleet of "gamma" trucks to scout the area. Reported Climax: some of its oilwell filters were indeed radioactive. But on the basis of its gamma reports and the general geology of the Nowata area, the company did not believe that there was any uranium lode on its land. It speculated that the uranium, spread throughout the oilfields in small quantities in the rock, was leached out by the water and deposited in the filters...