Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next two months. Right now, according to the latest (July 11) Louis Harris poll, the Administration is riding high. But public support for the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings rests on a hope that they will bring peace. Assuming this not to be the case, the current enthusiasm is likely to dampen somewhat by the middle of September...
...approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using continuously welded track...
...French. For one thing, it would give them continued access to the American tactical nuclear warheads in West Germany, which France now shares under the NATO "two-key" system. For another, it would enable France to keep troops in Germany, which, in French minds at least, serves to dampen the resurgence of their old enemy's aggressive spirit. Whether De Gaulle will be impressed by those considerations remains to be seen. Despite his vocal "suspicion" of American intentions in Europe, he is nonetheless counting on the U.S. to shield France from aggression no matter how much mischief he stirs...
...would rank "right up at the top" as an election issue, went on to declare that "the Great Society has become the High Society," with "high taxes, high prices, high spending, high deficits." It was an all-purpose statement-putting Johnson on the spot, whether he raises taxes to dampen inflation or risks higher prices by failing...
...effort--one is to achieve a better balance between destruction and construction in our own efforts in Vietnam, so that the non-Communist model of nation-building there can compete more effectively with the Chinese Communist model of nation-building. The other line of effort is to defuse or dampen Peking's militancy by getting China into greater contact with the outside world, more connected with the international scene and more interested in participating in it like other countries...