Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
...Yale is a fitting climax to the entire fall season," Bisbee said...
...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Shelley Winters in the old radio favorite, Sorry, Wrong Number...
From Reider's record-breaking, it might seem that he was way out in front of his team mates, but this is not true. There were two other runners, Ralph Perry and Dave Norris, who stayed up with Reider all season. As a fitting climax to the Crimson freshman season Friday, these two finished two-three behind Reider, as the Crimson easily won its third straight little Big Three title...
...limits. In spite of a highly touted policy of "a bigger bang for a buck" built largely around a highly mobile atomic-armed strategic air power, the Air Force budget was cut 15 percent in 1953 and the spring of 1954 saw slashes in Army and Navy funds. The climax of this irresponsible foreign policy came when the U.S. was forced to back down meekly in Indo-China after all sorts of military posturing and threats of "massive retaliation...