climacteric

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The war had reached another of those points which Winston Churchill has called "climacterics."

From Time Magazine Archive

So when Author MacDonald married Bob, an exmarine, who seemed to be well established in the insurance business, she decided to learn about length of premiums, renewals and actuarial climacterics.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they whose climacterics we observe, employed their observation upon their critical days, the working of thy promise of a Messias upon them.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

We are, on both sides, inclined to agree that we are approaching, if we have not actually entered on, one of the climacterics of our national life.

From Liberalism and the Social Problem by Churchill, Winston

You are," he says, "in one of your climacterics; however, you will get over it.

From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Melmoth, William