Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--If the Harvard hockey team was looking for a letdown after last Friday's thrilling 4-3 overtime victory against Boston College, it found the right place to play last night: Brown's Meehan Auditorium...
...illusory and unreliable. It's enough to say we used to have Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and now we have Michael Douglas and Cher. If anything has been lessened at Wrigley Field, it is probably something quite small, certainly nothing to cry over, only a momentary feeling of letdown, like missing the train...
...full-blown psychosis. Medical experts have long known that though the year after the birth of a child may be one of the most joyful times in a woman's life, it is also among the most stressful. Between 50% and 80% of new mothers experience an emotional letdown, known as the "baby blues," and become sensitive, moody and tearful. Such feelings usually disappear within a couple of weeks...
Just as superpowers are doomed to coexist, every summit seems destined to produce, sooner or later, a letdown. That is because the buildup is artificial. Such meetings are, by intent, based on the conceit that relations between traditional adversaries can change profoundly for the better, that they can change quickly, and that they can change as a result of the interaction between the superleaders themselves...
April 30, 1988: Having wrapped up the Ivy League title in midweek with a victory over Dartmouth, the women's lacrosse team would seem ripe for a letdown. But the Crimson manages to slip past the University of New Hampshire, 9-8, on a Karen Everling goal with 20 seconds left in the game...