Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprisingly, Iannello was caught, because, not surprisingly, the sidewalk had not been repaired. On July 9,1962, the Suffolk Superior Court sentenced Charles to a year in Deer Isle House of Correction and fined him $300. This misfortune did not dampen his political aspirations, for Iannello immediately entered the primary fight for his old seat. Courageously, he declared: "I leave the final verdict to be rendered by the voters and I have the fullest confidence that they will vindicate my innocence...
Threats of snow this afternoon, however, may dampen a demonstration today in Boston in support of the students going to Washington. The Hub march is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. in front of the State House...
...unforgettable movie and later a Broadway play. In this new collection of ten stories, he is badly served by Translator Takashi Kojima, who has used almost every cliché in the English language. But even so, Akutagawa's combination of savagery and detachment can raise Western hackles and dampen Western brows...
...fire, equipment that is readily available in other fields has to be flown in from England, France and the U.S. Meantime, a well has to be drilled 2,600 ft. down to water-bearing sands to provide the 40,000 gallons needed daily to shield the firemen and to dampen the area around GT2 in order to prevent sparks from relighting the fire before the gas flow is plugged. While these preliminaries are going on, Adair will continue to pop around the world taking care of other troublesome wells. But he will be back by Christmas, confidently plans to administer...
...Hungarian revolt, refused to make peace with Tito. Peking fumed when Khrushchev, in 1958, suggested a summit meeting without inviting the Red Chinese. Peking's much-publicized opposition to Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line has several facets. At home, this almost middle-class slogan threatens to dampen the revolutionary ardor Peking needs to justify the sacrifices of its own people. On the world scene, Red China would presumably like to provoke more local wars with the "capitalist-imperialist" enemy, even at the risk of a major conflict-since in Peking's view, war is inevitable anyway...