Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meantime his bucket of ice water should serve to dampen the optimism of even the most optimistic-in San Francisco and elsewhere. For that unintended good deed, the West can be duly grateful...
...DRAMATIC restatement of America's position in relation to world affairs is due soon. It is high time something be done to dampen the widespread notion-which seems to be shared even among some of our friends and allies-that America is hell-bent for war. America should take the peace initiative away from Moscow. We should prove to civilized opinion that we, more than anybody else in the world, want and need peace because we, above all others, have more to lose by war. This is a job which the President can do far better than anyone else...
...also tightening up on loans. In January FHA insured $931 million worth of new home construction, nearly double the amount of a year ago. But in the past few weeks, FHA has started to dampen the boom. In Dallas last week, FHA announced that it would make no further firm commitments on purely speculative housing, i.e., with no buyer signed up. In 17 other areas, e.g., Fort Dix, N.J., Portsmouth, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., primarily where defense-stimulated expansion has mushroomed building too rapidly, FHA has also rationed the number of loans it will insure, sometimes cutting builders' applications...
...years and 373 pages scrimmaging for a soggy, half-deflated male football named Rickie, and the rest trying to run with him toward the goal post of happiness. Since Rickie develops a debilitating ulcer and dies, neither of the girls makes it. But their tribulations are guaranteed to dampen any handkerchiefs that have dried out since the last episode of "John's Other Wife...
...behind one of four barricades situated around the sides of the arena. This particular agitator got caught out in the middle, where the bull bounced him around twice on his horns, then crushed him with his head while the fellow was lying on the turf. All this failed to dampen the spirits of anyone in the crowd, most of whom came provided with an abundant supply of spirits...