Word: letdowns
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...There wasn't a letdown." Senior Jeanne Piersak said after the game. "We felt like we had to bounce back. We wanted a win under our belt since we hadn't had one in awhile...
...little letdown," Olson said...
...predicts a letdown when Harvard takes the ice against Minnesota Friday night. The Golden Gophers have knocked the Crimson out of the semis twice before, and the icemen don't plan to take Friday's duel lightly...
...second lesson was that winning streaks die hard. The Crimson's now stands at 26, currently the longest in Division I swimming. Even faced with the prospects of Reading Period and facing a letdown against one of the weaker squads in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL), the aquamen weren't about to let that distinction slip away...
...there it remains for the next 60 years and the last half of the novel. A narrative letdown, of sorts, might be expected at about this point in the story. Lewis and Benjamin seclude themselves specifically so that nothing unexpected or notable will happen to them. Yet their author shows how extraordinary such ordinary lives can seem. For one thing, the twins are at ease in a landscape of striking beauty and variety. Each year spring renews the earth around them: "Shreds of cloud hung motionless in the sky. The hills were silvery in the sunlight, the hedges white with...