Word: anti-climaxed
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...down, gained four yards, flubbed another pass, and then threw one that gave them a first down on the seven yard line. The game was over then to all intents and purposes. Four rushes gave them a score and the point was kicked. Daughters' almost-catch was really an anti-climax, serving only to aggravate the bad heart condition of the 47,000 who attended.JIM CRAIG His Pass Leads To Army Tally...
...Columbia Lions. But that Yale match, despite anything else, is going to be a hot game to watch, and may well prove so exciting that the Swimming Meet which follows it on that appetizing double header the HAA has cooked up for Saturday will turn out to be an anti-climax...
Although this year the Yale series is proving the anti-climax of the hockey season after the Washington's birthday trip to Montreal, the Varsity six apparently had a little trouble down at New Haven after they had salted away five goals in the first period, and the game in the Garden may provide more exciting action than has been anticipated...
...moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
...etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration in the best soporific...