Word: whimperers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Hollywood and Detroit, art bowed to purity without a whimper...
...results of the Penn engagement ties up third place in the Eastern Intercollegiates three ways, between the Crimson, Navy, and the Pennsylvanians. Last weekend's two unfortunate post-Yale encounters ended the dual meet campaign for Ulen's aggregation with something of a whimper. However, with at least ten entries, Ulen now points for individual laurels in next week's Eastern Intercollegiate swimming get-together at New Haven...
...Yale stands started out with some vigorous pre-game cheers, but five minutes later they had subsided to a morbid despondency . . . . after the first quarter the cheering volumes gradually switched, with the sound of Brekekekek attaining attaining eventual superiority . . . the goalposts went swiftly and cleanly--not with a whimper but with a bang . . . Richard Corcoran '46 was dangerous with his heels as he hung from the north bars...
...Germany the war had ended, not with a bang but a whimper. It was a strangely quiet end to the final breath-taking week in which the German disaster had snowballed to an avalanche...