Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is THE Game," he emphasizes. "I've never lost to yale as a varsity player and I don't intend to now. Although Penn was for the championship, this is the rivalry. There won't be any letdown...
Moore, a registered Democrat, agreed that "if Reagan did win, it might be a bit of a letdown...
Back in Hollywood, where the scenery was being struck, the letdown was palpable. "I feel tike I have lost a friend," said David Provence, who in order to see the Games had taken off two weeks from his job as an industrial water-sprinkler installer. "I wouldn't mind going to Seoul in four years." In the manner of a beloved old ballpark being stripped for demolition, disposable slabs of vermilion and magenta will soon go on sale in a gigantic flea market. The saddest figure in Los Angeles was the honored policeman who wanted to be a hero...
...eight so far) have been an extra drain on emotional resources. "The debates are particularly difficult," says Oliver ("Pudge") Henkel, Hart's campaign manager. "It's a major change of pace from the rest of the campaign. It is so intense that there's invariably a letdown afterward...
...body's immune system against bacteria and viruses. What is more, says Psychiatrist Charles F. Stroebel, director of Connecticut's Institute for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Medicine, the Democratic candidates, pushed to their limits for months, could experience "significant emotional and physical problems with the letdown after the campaign." This "after-the-battle phenomenon," as Stroebel calls it, "has been widely observed in terms of how stress makes us sick." But politicians are tough, and the current crop of presidential candidates are no exception. "These people are self-selected," Stroebel ventures. "The ones who are not strong enough...