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Answer for the clue "Story's high point ", 6 letters:
climax

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Climax was an American band formed in 1970 in Los Angeles , California , most noted for their 1971-1972 hit song " Precious and Few ," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on Cashbox magazine 's Top 100 singles chart. This disc ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 64 Housing Units (2000): 29 Land area (2000): 0.125651 sq. miles (0.325434 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.125651 sq. miles (0.325434 sq. km) FIPS code: 14275 Located within: Kansas ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, in the rhetorical sense (a chain of reasoning in graduating steps from weaker to stronger), from Late Latin climax (genitive climacis ), from Greek klimax "propositions rising in effectiveness," literally "ladder," from root of klinein "to slope," ...

Usage examples of climax.

Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.

That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.

The sensation was intensely arousing and she felt herself being quickly propelled rapidly to another climax.

The climax came on May 1, when Liverpool and the Mersey were attacked for seven successive nights.

When the Enchanted Globe reached the platform at the top, the whole band joined the cimbalom to blare a rousing climax and bring the audience out of its stupefaction to a clamor of applause.

Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.

Some one more capable than Detectives Kurman and Cleer would be needed when that climax came.

I believe that is your motive here, with three cocks climaxing in you.

I heard a strange sound and feared we had been discovered, but it was only the party climaxing again.

At this moment they are building toward orgasm, except for Arleigh, who is climaxing continually.

The dominatrix fingered the cleft of the climaxing girl, probing the hot sphincter and launching Chloe into renewed spasms of delight.

Quickly he thrust forward again, once more and the next moment he was climaxing as deeply as Kerry.

At the climax, the hero beat the priest to death with his own crucifer, and prepared to welcome Them as They came.

The idea of a full day of constant climax excites me perhaps more than it does you.

Otterly here and all the other observers we have consulted say that, as a matter of fact, you went up to the dolmen at the moment of climax and stood motionless behind it.