Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the joys of Christmas-partying could dampen his curiosity about Viet Nam. "I couldn't help contrasting it with the Christmas before," he wrote later. "As much as I was enjoying myself, I knew even then that I would have to return to Viet Nam. There are simply too many unanswered questions for me there, and I'll have to go looking for them...
...Johnson Administration has so far maintained a hands-off policy. As long as the strike is confined to just one automaker, said Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, it might "somewhat dampen" the nation's economic activity, but "its main effect will be to postpone production sales and incomes into later months...
...International Telephone & Telegraph has encountered stiff Justice Department opposition to its proposed merger with American Broadcasting Co. But that has failed to dampen ITT's ardor for picking up other corporations. Its latest morsel: Rayonier Inc., a $171 million-a-year manufacturer of pulp products. The communications giant also has a line out in hopes of acquiring Western Power & Gas Co., a public utility operating in 13 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. - General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the nation's largest independent telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock...
...minor actors vary greatly in their portrayals of stock characters, but they do not dampen Anouilh's gluttonous delight in vice, comedy, and toying with an audience...
...years ago, German students were determined bookworms, so politically passive that many intellectuals wondered if there was much hope for democracy in a country that must look to such detached youths for its future leaders. The intellectuals are wondering no more. Instead, some are busily trying to dampen the unrest, which they regard as evidence of a West German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they met in Bonn for more than six hours with student leaders...