Word: damping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi, lasted only one more round. Hot-handed Sunday golfers blazed...
...year have soared nearly $2.5 billion (to $28.6 billion-150% more than the increase in the same period last year). At the same time, businessmen have been borrowing funds for long-term projects on the short-term market, hoping that interest rates will come down. Meanwhile, to damp down the demand for credit, the Federal Reserve has let the overall supply of lendable bank funds dwindle...
When this corruption from within the local church has been completed, the Communists move into the second phase to damp down the religious zeal so that gradually the Marxian "economic man" will supplant the Christian...
Outside the Cumberland Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg...
...varsity rugby team will slip and slide on a damp Cambridge field this afternoon in a practice session with M.I.T...