Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino's presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: "When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people of my country...
...Evanston could not try to provide earthly salvation, for that would be blasphemy; the kingdom of God must be sought for its own sake. But neither could they escape the atmosphere of urgency that surrounded their meeting. For the crescendo of ecumenical conferences of which Evanston is the climax† tells of a renewed Christian hope and a hunger for unity. These forces have brought together men and traditions that centuries of Christian history had driven asunder...
...pennant races boiled to a climax, major-league records melted in the heat. In Milwaukee, rooters for the third-place Braves smashed their own National League attendance record of 1,826,397, set last year. In Boston, aging Ted Williams, 35, walloped his 24th home run of the season, the 361st of his career, and tied the lifetime total of old Rival Joe DiMaggio. In Cincinnati. Gil Hodges raised his runs-batted-in total to 100, became the only active major leaguer to turn the trick for six consecutive years...
...revolutionary idea that perhaps they are not, after all, the Supreme Court in matters of child rearing: giving parents a rigid set of rules on how to raise their kids might be all wrong. At a Toronto mental-health congress in the last two weeks, this feeling reached a climax: mother and father know best...
...couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting at the correct answer, screaming 'That's right! That's right!' I got over that, finally...