Word: anticlimaxed
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When V-J day finally came, it was an anticlimax. The war had been over for 18 days; the ceremony on the scrubbed deck of the Missouri was historic, certainly, but it seemed a long way away. President Truman, who had already issued numberless historic statements in his four and a half months in office, had little new to say. But he said it, sitting in the radio room of the White House, in tones of such sincerity that his 35,000,000 listeners were impressed...
When the vote came, it was an anticlimax. Only North Dakota's lone-wolf William Langer and Minnesota's tall, grey Henrik Shipstead voted against it. The ayes: 35 Republicans, 53 Democrats and one Progressive. For a historic step there was no cheering, no demonstration. The gallery crowd went away quietly...
...curtain was lifted on Rangoon there were surprisingly few Japs around. Some 30,000 of the enemy remained in Burma, but many of them were cut off by the sea to the west, their escape routes to Thailand sealed. If the almost bloodless taking of Rangoon was an anticlimax to the bloody battles that had been fought for Mandalay and the roads southward, the strategic results were even more satisfactory than had been hoped...
...body and cheered him, as they had Tom Connally. They crossed the aisles and put their arms around the broad shoulders of the two delegates, wishing them well. Majority Leader Alben Barkley, moved by the demonstration, hastily called for adjournment, observing that any other business would be an anticlimax...
...Anticlimax. The rest of Belle's life was anticlimax. Arrested, she fell in love with the Yankee ensign assigned to guard her. He became the first of her three husbands. In England she was a social success for a time, fell into poverty, had to succor herself by writing her guarded memoirs...