Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue had bedeviled U.S.-Israeli relations for ten weeks, and when it was finally settled the announcement came as something of an anticlimax. Having registered its displeasure over the Israeli bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor and a subsequent attack on Beirut that killed 300 people, the Reagan Administration last week released 16 U.S.-built jet fighters for shipment to Israel. The U.S. had ordered the embargo to determine whether Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government had committed a "substantial violation" of an agreement with the U.S. that stipulates that American arms shall only be employed defensively...
...Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made: the Prince and Princess on their wedding day. But fairy tales usually end at this point with the simple phrase 'They lived happily ever after.' This may be because fairy tales regard marriage as an anticlimax after the romance of courtship. This is not the Christian view. Our faith sees the wedding day not as the place of arrival but the place where the adventure really begins...
...Carter Administration's agreement to settle the A T& T case was a stunning anticlimax. Since the suit against the world's largest corporation (assets: $125 billion) was originally filed in 1974, the Justice Department has spent $10 million preparing its case, and A T& T has put out an astonishing $250 million. The long-awaited trial opened just four days before Reagan's Inauguration, with small armies consisting of 23 Government lawyers and 21 attorneys for Bell squaring off against each other. George L. Saunders, the chief A T& T trial lawyer, accused the Government...
...pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." And the time he was deported from Puerto Rico by U.S. authoritie, Greene, 76, has survived professionally...
...anticlimax of the game with Yale, which started only 50 minutes after the game with Brown ended, boosted the Crimson's spirits if nothing else...