Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans each year lose between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood of the nation...
...portrait and others, the countess was an incurable cocotte. But she was a likable one, and also never let guilt or bitterness interfere with gaiety. In London, she wrote, she was able to look at it all and laugh sufficiently to "dampen her dress." She died at 35, having fallen from a third-story window during a carouse. Or was she pushed by French revolutionary agents? The book leaves that question, and most others, tantalizingly open...
...members of the HDC are concerned with the entire question of "what the Loeb is in terms of the students at Harvard." They feel that the theatre should provide "fun and experience" for those interested in dramatics. Its use as an "academic building with faculty direction of plays will dampen the enthusiasm of student actors...
...what the financial doctor ordered. In his interim budget, Finance Minister Donald Fleming announced his intention to realign the nation's lopsided balance of payments with the U.S. by imposing heavy taxes on U.S. investors. As to the effect on the dollar, Fleming reasoned that more taxes will dampen U.S. enthusiasm for Canadian stocks and bonds, thus make Canadian money more plentiful, and hence cheaper, on the New York money market. The effect on trade, with the dollar at parity, will be to make Canadian goods cheaper; exports should increase and bring the U.S.-Canadian trade deficit into closer...
Stormy weather didn't scare elderly Republicans away from the Commander Hotel last night, but there was little real enthusiasm for the rain to dampen...