Word: dampen
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...that they make South Carolina's racial divide look simple. But if Obama can persuade enough black and white South Carolinians to give him a resounding victory, he may be able to claim that he knows not only how to fire up an American crowd but also how to dampen its lingering prejudices...
...American holiday-shopping season that Franklin Roosevelt officially moved Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November (for years like this, with an extra one) to the fourth, to give retailers an edge. They'll need it this time around, as darkened Broadway theaters and striking Hollywood writers dampen the holiday spirit, toys have gotten scary, gas prices trudge ever upward, the dollar slips ever lower, and the credit crisis makes people feel poorer even if they aren't in foreclosure. One marketing firm predicts a "blue Christmas," citing slumping sales of tinsel as a leading indicator; 27% of shoppers...
Nothing could dampen the spirit of the Harvard wrestling team, even when its first tournament of the season turned out to be a far too crowded affair. The Crimson, which ended a historic season last year with three wrestlers qualifying as All-Americans and with its highest ever point total at the year-end national tournament, launched its season at the East Stroudsburg University (ESU) Open with a mixed group of battle-tested veterans and newly recruited talents. On a Saturday morning at Koehler Fieldhouse, sophomore J.P. O’Connor, the only Harvard freshman to earn All-American honors...
Rainy weather prompted a last-minute change of location for last night’s pep rally, but did not dampen the spirits of the students who turned out in droves to profess their love for Harvard and their disdain for a certain safety school in New Haven. Organized by the College Events Board and the First-Year Social Committee, the Harvard-Yale pep rally was originally scheduled to take place in front of the John Harvard statue, but was moved to the Queen’s Head Pub as a result of the wet weather. Though scheduled to begin...
...might think that such a discouraging outcome would be enough to dampen even the UC’s most bellicose anti-establishmentarians, and allow us to move on to something else. Instead, there is now talk in the UC of jettisoning its agreement with the College by funding alcohol reimbursements with income streams from a partnership with Harvard Student Agencies and CrimsonReading.org—money that is less under the College’s control than the regular grants...