Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proudly programmed to praise the man who is going to give the Republicans four more years at the helm of the nation, and who will perhaps forge the first new alignment of political power in the U.S. since the New Deal. The campaign to follow looms almost as anticlimax, an exercise in the forms of democracy, though it will be the most lavishly financed and highly organized in Republican history. Yet it should also pose the sharpest choice on basic issues of any modern U.S. election. No matter; in the euphoria of the convention, the Republicans are acting...
...presidential balloting Wednesday night had an air of anticlimax. Not all of the Old Politics was gone: as the states were called to declare their votes, delegation chairmen delivered their traditional commercials. Delaware was "the home of corporations, chickens, chemicals and charisma"; California was "the state that began the lettuce boycott"; North Carolina was "the summerland where the sun doth shine...
Showdown. For most of the regular season, in fact, fans had looked forward to the final series as little more than an anticlimax. The real drama figured to come in the inevitable showdown between the red-hot Lakers and the defending Champion Milwaukee Bucks for the Western Division title. The winner of that clash, so the smart money said, would then face some hopelessly outclassed team from the Eastern Division...
...hoax, which had once seemed a thing of dazzling design and theatrical performance, thumped toward an anticlimax. Last week Clifford Irving's elaborate production, the false autobiography of Howard Hughes, was replayed in lumpy, legalistic prose as two grand juries in New York indicted Irving and his wife Edith. One of the juries also indicted their burly collaborator, Writer-Researcher Richard Suskind...
MAJORITY Leader Mike Mansfield called the Senate into session at 9 a.m. Friday, three hours earlier than usual, so that his colleagues would have plenty of time to get their perorations into the record before the hour agreed upon for voting -7 p.m. There was an air of anticlimax in the chamber: bitter skirmishing over amendments to the bill had ended two days before, with consistent victories for Administration lobbyists who twisted arms and scraped senatorial egos. Still, there seemed no doubt that the bill would pass. White House congressional liaison men had vanished from Capitol Hill. Their chief, Clark...