Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most campaigns, the 1952 presidential campaign began with polite debate and an implied treaty of mutual respect. Last week the air waves crackled with television scowls and such words as "bigotry", "fraud", and "lies." In its climax, the 1952 campaign was a strident and bitter conflict...
...coordination. Several matadors did not even move their feet as the bull charged the cape; they merely pulled the cape aside, arched their bodies, and let the bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According to how the crowd reacts to his performance, the matador is allowed to retain one bull's ear, both ears, or both ears and the tail. As he struts around the ring acknowledging the appreciation of the spectators, he tosses these articles to persons in the stands. They are treasured...
...clinching touchdown--at 0:38 of the last period--resulted from a one-yard leap by Culver to climax a drive from midfield. The muscular fullback gained 65 yards in 15 plays, and earned the opposition's praise and respect while doing...
...familiar deep voice of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh poured out from Radio Teheran one afternoon last week. For 90 minutes the wily old man rambled over the 19 months of Britain-Iranian oil negotiations, then reached his climax: "Iran has done her best, but the British government always obstructed a settlement. They [the British] have thus forced Iran to cut relations with them...
...Climax to the PBH basketball season is the Boston-New Haven Inter-Settlement House play-off, held each year in the middle of March. Top players from the PBH and Timothy Dwight (Yale's counterpart to Brooks House) settlement leagues meet alternately here and at New Haven for the inter-city championship. A two-day week-end is planned with the games themselves as highlights...