Word: anticlimax
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...money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting Cohn on at least one count of perjury. "This is a very big disappointment," said the foreman later. "It's like being left at the altar." The anticlimax left ordinary citizens equally disappointed and understandably puzzled. Why did Judge Dawson excuse Mrs. Aribelle Mabrey, the bereaved juror whose father had died? Why not ask to have the funeral delayed a few hours? Conversely, could the trial have continued with eleven jurors? If not, why was there no alternate juror...
...today's Yale match figures to be something of an anticlimax unless a massive case of overconfidence hits the Crimson. The Hetheringtons and Howes who led Yale teams to so many great seasons are gone, replaced by just three lettermen and a scattering of sophomores up from a freshman team Harvard pasted 7-2 a year ago. Yale has lost matches to Princeton and amazingly, to Cornell. Harvard squeaked by the Tigers 5-4, but routed Cornell...
...shaped package, ominously wrapped in butcher's paper. For days, he shifted the bundle absentmindedly as he addressed the jury, but made no reference to it. Finally, he unwrapped the package slowly as the jury watched in horrified fascination. If the artificial leg he revealed was an anticlimax, Belli immediately rebuilt the tension: he dropped the limb into the lap of a shocked juror and proceeded to spell out exactly how it would feel to wear the contraption for a lifetime. The award to his client...
When it was all over, Mike Mansfield rose, faced his colleague across the aisle, and said, "I salute a great American." The debate may go on until some time next week, but after Ev Dirksen, it would surely be all anticlimax. For his support of the treaty, and his speech on its behalf, had assured its ratification...
...against the excesses of expectation on both sides, the day began in anticlimax. Overnight, special trains and buses began moving into Washington from all parts of the U.S. Some of the early arrivals went off to picket Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. But most of those getting off the trains in Washington's Union Station seemed weary, bewildered and subdued...