Word: anticlimaxes
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...parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow sky was so overcast that the scheduled Red air force flypast had to be canceled...
After all that chatter, Sugar's workout with gloves was an anticlimax. A leather helmet complete with chin guard and nose piece protecting the old scars acquired in 148 professional fights, he lazed through four rounds. Sparring partners put on a fair imitation of Basilio's brawling style while Sugar put on a fair imitation of a man who knows how to defend himself but sees no point in overexertion. "The roar of the crowd will give him a spark," promised Manager Gainford. "Just wait till Sugar hears the crowd...
DAVE BECK has as much right as another American to invoke the Fifth Amendment. His action in doing so is no proof of guilt. The trouble with Beck's protestations of innocence is that he has already admitted a moral offense so vast that anything else is anticlimax; long before he took the stand in Washington, he had confessed that he borrowed more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck...
There was only one characteristically French way to stave off such a humiliating anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...
Earning the Title. After Appomattox, all should have been an anticlimax. But Dan Sickles went on to be Minister to Spain by appointment of President Grant. In Madrid he tried to cozen the Spanish out of Cuba without a war and earned the derisive title, "Yankee King of Spain'' by his trips to Paris to make love to the deposed Spanish Queen Isabella...