Word: anticlimax
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After Vice Admiral Ingram's pointed remarks in Montevideo, the result was a crashing anticlimax. A prevalent guess in Washington: Argentina's Government had already heard enough, was about to break relations with the Axis, and Mr. Roosevelt did not want to anger its Government at a critical moment. If not, the U.S. had suffered a dismal setback...
...warring powers. The game ended because first Russia and then the U.S. and Britain wanted it to end; because Turkey realized that the time had come to pay for postwar security. After the stimulus of the Big Three Conferences, the end of Turkey's game was a sobering anticlimax, a dour lesson in the realities which Europe still faces despite the promise of Teheran...
...news of Italy's surrender came over the air at 11:47 a.m. (E.W.T.). By lunchtime the extras were on the streets. But after the thunderous fall of Mussolini, after the conquest of Sicily and the Italian invasion, the biggest news of the war had an air of anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over...
...Navy's report on its stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded...
...anticlimax had its own significance. The Japs failed completely to react. If there were any fighters on the island, they never got in the air. Although U.S. surface ships were within bombing range of strong Jap bases on Bonin and Marianas Islands, no bombers ever appeared to retaliate. Conspicuously absent was the Jap fleet...