Word: anticlimaxed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer, and last week, from the leftist New Statesman ("Here it is at last-and no anticlimax either") to the conservative Economist ("The Home Office deserves unstinting congratulations"), the press was singing his praises. Reason: Rab Butler's long-awaited White Paper on the condition of Britain's major prisons...
...year-old Publisher Snedden, any less dramatic performance would have been an anticlimax to his arduous, four-year campaign to get Alaska into the Union. Not even Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) worked harder. Every fall he put out a special 144-page, four-color issue on the glories of Alaska, sent a copy to every member of Congress and to the editor of every U.S. paper with more than 50,000 circulation...
Tonight's Yale game, at 8:30 in the Boston Arena, is somewhat of an anticlimax. The varsity has wrapped up the NCAA bid and the Ivy League Championship, so a loss to the Blue at this juncture would only cause some red faces on the selection committee. But as Weiland commented last night, "It is a Yale game and no one wants to lose to them...
...America's free world friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come-in the midst of a delicate experiment...
...even before the game ended, it was all anticlimax. What was a "measly old Ivy title," wailed the Daily Princetonian, when up at New Haven a Yale team that had whipped Princeton and tied Dartmouth was playing Harvard for the Big Three championship? What, indeed? asked proper Elis, who were determined to prove they were best in the league. In the long, 82-year history of "The Game," no Yalemen ever had so satisfying an afternoon. And few Yale teams ever put on so polished a performance. Incredibly calm and casual, Eli Quarterback Dick Winterbauer stood up behind his fine...