Word: letdowns
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...ouija board and, it was said, turned on without drugs. "She was very spiritual," said a hippie named Mongol. But another recalled that Carol had talked of using "speed" (an amphetamine drug) to control her weight; a prolonged "high" with amphetamines is often followed by an even deeper letdown...
Each year, Harvard coaches try to guard against an inevitable letdown in the Brown game. Coming as it does between the two Big Three bloodbaths, his next to last contest of the season sometimes lends itself to a sub-par Crimson performance. Harvard hasn't actually lost to Brown since...
...turmoil brought on by Peking's Proletarian Cultural Revolution, but it has not disappeared. As for increasing the bombing, there is a hazard that it would stir hope in the U.S. that a little more bombing will end the war-and thus pave the way for a later letdown and demands for peace at any price...
Members of Congress have often left the exhibit with a similarly letdown feeling. "The dome is beautiful, and the moon surface and burned hulls of space craft are very good. But the rest of it is very sick," was the opinion of North Dakota Republican Mark Andrews, who added, "Tens of thousands of people a day pass through on the minitrain to see what America is like. And what do they see? They see Liz Taylor, who's not even a citizen any more. It wasn't a soft sell; it was no sale...
...Harvard surge late in the game -- goals by Timberlake and Charley Ames -- was too little too late, as the Crimson stickmen couldn't recover from their third quarter letdown in time to pull off the victory...