Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strasbourg was liberated (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But the eyes of the French nation were looking beyond the Rhineland toward Moscow, where General de Gaulle had a rendezvous with Marshal Stalin. For in this most peculiar of wars, the unfinished Battle of Germany was little more than a terrible anticlimax. The social and political future of Europe was being foreshadowed, less on the bloody battlefields or by Europe's restive people than in Moscow's Kremlin...
Whatever happened in the World Series would be an anticlimax. For the first time since 1908 the American League pennant race had gone smack down to the wire; on the last day of the season, after 153 games, the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns were even Stephen, with 88 wins and 65 losses apiece...
Honor for the Dead. When the Canadians came back into Dieppe last fort night, there were no casualties, no shooting. The Germans had fled; it was almost an anticlimax. The victors who marched with tranquil pride through Dieppe's streets were the men of the 2nd Division - the same outfit that sent 5,000 men across in the 1942 raid, brought back less than...
...bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have survived the near brush of death...
Sunny's thirst for knowledge is something of an anticlimax in a short but eventful life. She grew up in Matagorda, Tex., where her father was an oil man-"I guess you'd call him a wildcatter." He was also, says Sunny, "sort of a heller." One day he was shot in a Texas hotel room ("Right between the eyes," says Sunny). Nobody ever found...