Word: whimper
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Despite the fact that spring football practice begins in something less than seven weeks, speculation about the identity of the Crimson's new coach petered out to a low whimper last week as Cambridge bogged down in academic detail...
Then the war ended with a whimper. Vasily-Wilhelm hid out in the Carpathians among the Hutzuls, a poor Ukrainian mountain people whom he soon captivated with his Viennese charm. Then he caught typhoid fever...
...flyers who took the airmail, back in the "Twenties. The scene is a circus, complete with a rudimentary chorus line and four brothers who put on a daredevil air show. The audience is set for an hour and a half of rare entertainment, when the story collapses with a whimper into the worst kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them (the kid) is killed, and another (strong and silent) is crippled...
...Manhattan's Chinatown held a baby contest, chose a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, a cutest, a best-costumed entrant. But the prize for the "cryingest baby" went begging Not one of the button-eyed contestants would let out so much as a whimper...
...hundred enthralled but hard-pressed couples, an original musical comedy, and the enthroning of a statuesque, Grecian-type beauty highlighted the Class of 1950's Jubilee Weekend, which banged to a climax under Sam Donchue's baton in the Union Saturday night, and ended with a whimper as ice-packs were applied yesterday morning...