Word: dampered
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...just as profound. Under the mercurial Betancourt, Venezuela erupted with fierce political loyalties and hatreds. It was a country where the governing A.D. party split into feuding factions, where Castroites at one time were killing a policeman a day. In his cool, quiet way, Leoni has put on a damper...
...split his fatigues. Incredibly, disastrously, Manolo Ray, the Cuban freedom fighter who had promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves...
Against Penn, Princeton placed four men in the top five, which seems to put a damper on Crimson hopes to win the meet "up front" where it is particularly strong...
Honeywell has barely been able to control its own growth. Founded in 1885 by Minneapolis Inventor Alfred Butz to manufacture the first automatic damper controls for furnaces, Honeywell grew and diversified steadily over the years by improving and elaborating on the basic principle of automatic control established by Butz. For years it plowed its sales dollars back into research to make better home controls, in World War II began to branch out in earnest by making Air Force automatic pilots and a radar sensitive enough to record so much as a twitch in a pitch-black room...
...national debt by $27 billion in just three years. The debt would then total nearly $316 billion-a figure which should give pause even to the most enthusiastic proponents of "more." In addition, the very size of Kennedy's gargantuan budget has probably thrown a damper on any psychological lift that the economy might be expected to get from tax cuts and tax reform...