Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow's heptagonal cross-country meet in Van Cortland Park, New York, gives the Crimson its next to last chance for victory this season. An anticlimax after the Yale-Princeton debacle, this outing should find Jaakko Mikkola's harriers in their best shape this fall...
...curious anticlimax. Republicans had waited for years for the great day when the country would come to its senses and turn the Democrats out. The authors of the New Deal, in turn, had shuddered in anticipation of the awful moment when the G.O.P. would come to power, reduce their works to ashes, and set the laboring man to building country clubs on non-union wages...
Anything done by a team after it plays Yale is bound to be an anticlimax, but the lacrosse team at least ended its mediocre season on a triumphant note by whitewashing a pugnacious Springfield...
Everything thereafter is sheer anticlimax, as a limp audience is held spell-bound in its seats, asphyxiated by what is without a doubt the worst in a long and dubious series of "Road" vehicles...
Names & Numbers. As Witness Menjou stepped down, Chairman Thomas declared a two-minute recess. After that Man of Distinction, anyone else was bound to be something of an anticlimax. The next witnesses felt their fate but did their best. Esquire's Movie Critic John Charles Moffitt fired in all directions...