Word: anticlimaxed
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...nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks up his world. When a bomb brings down his unfinished cathedral on top of him it is almost an anticlimax...
...trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls, grunts and roars that when the fearsome Devil Tiger finally appears his death seems a mild anticlimax...
...Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being deflated into an anticlimax by one of the strangest trials in history...
...matches that followed, between Austin and Allison, was close and exciting but Austin, against an opponent who seemed worn and overtrained, had speed enough to win 6-2, 7-9, 6-3, 6-4. That decided the series and Perry's match against Vines would have been an anticlimax if it had been less desperately, less tragically played...
...country's oilmen hastened at his call to assemble in Washington, make a report to him favoring strict proration. They expected to receive commands from the new chief. Instead the President sent telegrams to the Governors of oil States saying it was up to them to act. Result: anticlimax, nothing done. Last week with the oil industry worse off than in March, oilmen again looked to Washington. With chaos, caused by Texas, looming, Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft a bill which would make Secretary...