Word: anticlimaxed
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Those oarsmen have been trained to a peak which their coaches expect to be reached on Saturday. The winners will doubtless row well in their race here, but it will be an anticlimax, for the race on Saturday is no more elimination to select a suitable foe for the local oarsmen. It is The Boat Race. William E. Slesnick...
...biggest moments of last year's winter track season, boggles by the officials blurred the results to the point of farcical anticlimax. The two big questions: 1) Did Don Gehrmann or Fred Wilt win the Wanamaker Mile? 2) Did, or did not, the Rev. Robert Richards become the second man in history to pole-vault 15 feet...
...have been Australia's year. The Aussies had just trounced the U.S. (four matches to one) for the Davis Cup. But in the National Singles last week, the Aussies played like men still in a happy trance over winning the international cup, and as if anything else was anticlimax. By the quarterfinals, the Australian first-liners-Frank Sedgman, Jack Bromwich and Ken McGregor -had all been upset by less-favored Americans...
...final heat of the 90-mile race was an anticlimax. With only Lombardo's slower boat left to offer competition, Slo-Mo-Shun breezed through with an unspectacular average of 73.6 m.p.h. The winner's average speed for the 90 miles: 78.2 m.p.h., fastest in Gold Cup history...
Stromboli (RKO Radio). Any film by Director Roberto Rossellini and Actress Ingrid Bergman would seem anti-climactic after their own stormy, thoroughly publicized private lives. As an anticlimax in moviemaking, this one can stand on its own feet. A bleak, draggy little picture, it fulfills neither RKO's prurient advertising claims, nor Rossellini's obviously artistic intentions...