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...Glenwood woodburning cookstove, along with some dry birch kindling and some twelve-inch splits of coarse grained red oak. He has watched the ancient oven thermometer, as reliable as the day it was made 80 years ago, climb to 425° F. That's a little high. Fiddle with the damper. Now pop in three bread pans full of cracked-wheat dough...
...reasonable, constructive approach" to normalizing relations between the two countries. But he also noted that Moscow "resolutely condemns the ideology and policy of Maoism as deeply hostile to Marxism-Leninism, the interests of socialism and the cause of peace." In Peking, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping similarly put a damper on the Moscow meeting in remarks to a foreign visitor, Canada's ex-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Reported Trudeau: "He made it quite clear that in his mind the differences between Moscow and Peking have their origin in Russian chauvinism that is worse, as he put it, than...
Indeed, the threat of trouble from the unions put a damper even on businessmen's enthusiasm for the budget. One wealthy corporate executive called home to tell his wife to lay in an ample supply of gas for their camping stove, lest there be no fuel next winter in their Kensington flat. And in the two days after Howe delivered his budget message to Commons, the Financial Times stock index dropped 27 points. The Tories stoutly defended their drastic action. "This is a severe package," conceded John Biffen, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. "But the severity is made necessary...
File away last week's impressive win over Princeton. The unexpected results that struck the Radcliffe heavies this weekend in Hanover, N.H., have put a damper on the ascent to ecstasy begun last Saturday with the victory over the Tigers...
...Foreman, be banned from all AAU competition (not just international meets) for the duration of their two year terms. If the suspensions remain unchanged and unchallenged, not only will they prevent all four world-class swimmers from participating in the 1980 Olympic Games, they could put a severe damper on the ability of both Foreman and Tallman to continue in competitive swimming...