Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel tomorrow. So this summer we intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told...
Rain and mud did not dampen fans' enthusiasm, especially the Arabs'. They lost their robes betting on their hero, Private Omar Koudri of the French Army, who was badly cut by the Fifth Army's Larry Cisneros of Los Angeles, Calif., fourth-ranking welterweight in prewar...
Sonya, the daughter of a middle-class Siberian gold-mine manager, possessed a bourgeois ambition that even the terrors of the October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...
Censor Troubles. Last December, when a British offensive in Libya unexpectedly bogged down, the London Daily Mirror cried in anguish: "Can nobody dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesmen in Cairo?" Apparently not. Even after Tobruk, the Cairo censorship seemed determined to let only pink fog get through the screen-thus taxing the ingenuity of one sardonic correspondent who was bound to get a little acid out along with the fog. Chester Morrison of the Chicago Sun cabled his paper: "The delicacies of censorship are such that I was stumped in trying to devise a way to tell...
...Baron's journey and his growing collection of Nazi gewgaws did much to dampen rumors of an early Finnish-Russian peace which have been flying around United Nations capitals. The hopeful had been hoping that little Finland, a bit fed up with her German alliance, might make peace with Russia, her old enemy, if the United Nations would guarantee that Russia would be held perpetually in check after victory. Germany would not like that, and it was unlikely that the Baron and his host even mentioned it, in their little talks between amenities. It seemed more probable that they...