Word: dampering
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...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...
...that didn't put a damper on the fun Thursday night...
While Head weekend featured some of the traditional partying, students said Harvard's security measures put a damper on the festivities...
...today's game could determine what is ahead for the Crimson, for another loss would take the Crimson out of NCAA contention and put a big damper on the rest of the season...