Word: letdowns
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From Point Barrow to Ketchikan-in mining camps, beauty parlors, banks, offices, hangars, in remote villages with names like Tolstoi, Meehan, Kanatak and Nugget-visitors and Alaskans felt a mounting fever. For, after a short winter letdown, the boom was back with the summer...
...fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture, for no particular reason other than having heard its name so many times. And a good many of them are liable to be very disappointed with what they see; not only because it will come as such a letdown after the huge buildup, but because intrinsically "Duel in the Sun" is no great shakes by any standard. And despite his propaganda and his jacked-up prices, Mr. Selznick seems headed for financial disappointment...
...Mountbattens mounted the steps. At the top stood the Viceroy and Vicereine, Lord and Lady Wavell. Said Wavell: "Did you have a good trip?" Said Mountbatten: "Very smooth." Next day, Wavell was piped and saluted out. With no letdown in ceremony, Mountbatten took the oath as Viceroy, sat for a moment on the red brocade and gold throne...
...German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City Music Hall look like a miniature. Italy shows no signs of a cultural letdown. It is excited, exuberant and ready...
...letdown" for the U.S. to notify Yugoslavia that if our "ultimatum" were not met we would "call upon the Security Council of the United Nations" [TIME, Sept...