Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shout, 'Down with these orgies!' . . . and, with the help of Jesus Christ, we will prevent Greece from being turned into another Hollywood." The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church approved the stand of the Followers, and asked the government to ban all beauty contests as "the climax...
Swan Song. The worst was yet to come. Five miles above the finish waited murderous Cottonwood Rapids, where the clawing waters, leaping up in snarling talons, funnel through a 20-ft. passage. Thousands of spectators had gathered there for the climax. First through was Bock, showing the strain in his taut face, then Paris, spilling again. Then came Champion Seidel, flashing his two-bladed paddle and maneuvering his tight-fitting craft by swinging his hips, hula-like, to meet crosscurrents. He shot through with expert ease, emerged from angry Cottonwood to come in fourth at the finish...
...last came time for the report of the standing committee on inter-church relations, the climax of the session. Committee Chairman R. McFerran Crowe of Atlanta surprised the delegates by seating all 39 members of his committee on the auditorium stage. Then he called on two members, one for union and one against, to testify. The vote, they told the astonished commissioners, had been unanimous in favor of submitting the union plan to the presbyteries...
...sapphire and rubies), to wed the Queen to her subjects; the Royal Sceptre with the Cross, decorated with the Star of Africa (a 516½-carat diamond), for "kingly power"; the Rod of equity and mercy, to "lead your people in the way wherein they should go." The climax of the coronation was near...
...climax of a big retrospective show in Rome, Spain's leathery, little Pablo Picasso produced two huge (32 ft. by 16 ft.) panels (opposite), painted for his own abandoned, 14th century chapel in Vallauris on the French Riviera. Picasso's War shows a team of horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors...