Word: damper
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...seemed the Crimson had all the momentum--that shot by Gilmore broke the school record for career three-pointers. But Dartmouth sophomore forward P.I. Halas put a damper on the evening by hitting from beyond the are to keep Harvard...
DIED. SHANNON HOON, 28, rock singer; of a drug overdose; in New Orleans. Hoon wailed his way to stardom fronting Blind Melon. A hit single, No Rain, took the group's eponymous 1992 album multiplatinum. But Hoon's drug use put a damper on success, leading to his arrests for urinating during a concert in Vancouver and for disrupting a 1994 awards show. Blind Melon was on tour when an unrevivable Hoon was found on the band...
...only damper on the occasion could be the weather. Although any spillover from Hurricane Opal will be gone by the weekend, the National Weather Service predicts a chance of showers tomorrow and partly cloudy skies Sunday, with high temperatures...
...three successive hills around mile 17, really put a damper on my run...I slowed down. Those were some of the most difficult hills I've ever run on," said Donlan, who finished his first marathon ever in a time around 3 hours and 50 minutes. "I wished I had practiced more on hills...
...mostly worried about oppressive majority factions. The modern special-interest group was a species unknown to him. Still, he had a fundamental insight that explains the subsequent origin of that species and its growth. The beauty of a large country, he noted, is the damper it places on factionalism. For when people are dispersed far and wide, even if some of them have "a common motive," the distance among them will make it hard for them to organize -- "to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other." The history of communications technology over the past...