Word: anticlimax
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...Anticlimax...
Penn's third goal fairly well decided the issue, however, and the fourth quarter provided a half-hearted anticlimax to the disappointing encounter...
...college football is a game that frequently defies belief. The 33,000 fans and 18 million TV viewers who watched those mites from S.M.U. upset Texas A. & M. in the opening game of the season will not be surprised if the rest of the season is anticlimax...
...does one survive Lindbergh's kind of triumph? If he was condemned to a permanent sense of anticlimax, he gave no sign of it. In the aftermath of the flight, Lindbergh earnestly devoted himself to exploiting his fame for the sake of developing aviation. And aviation needed it. In 1927, in all the U.S., fewer than 9,000 people went aloft as passengers on scheduled airlines (compared with 109 million last year). Between accepting medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice...
...rushed the Toronto trainer to see if Terry was all right. "I stopped it, didn't I?" growled Sawchuk, and scrambled to his feet to make a fantastic 37 saves as Toronto skated off with a 4-2 victory. After that, the sixth game was an anticlimax. Toronto won it 3-1 and went on to the finals against Montreal...