Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bataan, where Annalee mended and patched her sweater-and-slacks trousseau for two months, the Jacobys' foxhole honeymoon did not dampen their spirits. And Jacoby, besides adding to his laurels as a correspondent, took some of the best photographs to come from that front...
Life for men and women is full of difficulties. And if the difficulties are mostly trivial, they dampen the spirits perhaps even more than splendid trials. Though there has not been a major bombing raid in nearly a year, there is total, blackout every night, everywhere. The first experience of a blackout has its interesting points, but on the 1,001st night it is only a bloody nuisance...
...nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo...
Thereupon Hearst wired harsh words to King Features. Lyons availed himself of a 60-day cancellation clause, signed with McNaught Syndicate. The change did not dampen his cheerful animation. McNaught Syndicate's Charles McAdam (a Lyons booster from way back) was confident he could add a lot more Lyons customers...