Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there it remains for the next 60 years and the last half of the novel. A narrative letdown, of sorts, might be expected at about this point in the story. Lewis and Benjamin seclude themselves specifically so that nothing unexpected or notable will happen to them. Yet their author shows how extraordinary such ordinary lives can seem. For one thing, the twins are at ease in a landscape of striking beauty and variety. Each year spring renews the earth around them: "Shreds of cloud hung motionless in the sky. The hills were silvery in the sunlight, the hedges white with...
...After the game officially ended, it seemed like a dream come true. It was beautiful, the biggest thing I had ever hoped for. But after they made the second field goal, it was the biggest letdown that I had ever experienced. It was the low point of my football," career. It will stay with me for the rest of my life." Garvey said. "But that's over and done with Now we're just grateful that we have a last chance to prove ourselves against Yale. I guarantee that we'll be ready...
Interestingly, the pattern of even play followed by letdown repeats itself each time Brown has the bull. The big guns, especially 6-ft., 2-in. Mike McDiurmid and 6-ft., 5-in. David Todhunter, work the bull around the perimeter unhindered by Crimson across long enough to block their posses, holding back while the shot clock runs down... until one of them fires a cannonbull...
...anything, Mabrey was more disappointed than Rilling. This was her team's worst contest of the season, including its four of Ireland, said the Crimson mentor. Not only that, but it proved an emotional letdown after Tuesday's 4-2 triumph over Providence...
...When he got to New Haven, he had the kind of immediate letdown that he had had on previous trips to Nashville, on his previous 1978 trip to Nashville. It was an immediate sense of disappointment, disillusionment...