Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopefully the state legislature's delay in holding a hearing on the matter will not dampen opposition to the bill. The voices of civic groups, the press and individuals should convince the state of the importance of keeping the Basin...
...Sunday serenade from the Lowell Bell Tower. Although these concerts provide, week in and week out, the greatest source of pleasure to the music-loving public in Cambridge, they seem particularly enjoyable at this otherwise bleak season of the year. One always fears that the pressures of studying may dampen the bell-ringers' wonted enthusiasm, and their devoted following was relieved by yesterday's unusually outstanding concert...
Rain threatened to dampen "Woody's" farewell performance with the Harvard Glee Club at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Festival last Sunday afternoon...
...results of the elections, which under PR will take about a week to compute, will undoubtedly dampen the presently growing enthusiasm of CCA members. They have won on the campaign issues, but voters are unlikely to change the usual pattern and to give the CCA a majority either on the Council or on the School Committee...
...last summer-got together with that jolly old minstrel, Premier Chou Enlai, for a clap-hands songfest. But as the Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped him on the nose...