Word: dented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Solzhenitsyn's deportation created scarcely a dent in East-West relations, the Soviets tried to blame possible future disturbance on Solzhenitsyn himself. An 8,000-word article in Literary Gazette last week suggested that the writer and other dissidents must be held responsible for any setbacks in the course of detente. There was, however, little cause for Kremlin concern. Diplomats in most major European capitals generally agreed that the Soviets acted with a degree of restraint in exiling Solzhenitsyn rather than liquidating him, as would have happened under Stalin. One measure of detente, argued a high-ranking State...
...speech before a "Support Our President" rally in Los Angeles, Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent ran down the vile names that Lincoln was called, pointed out how Nixon's enemies were abusing him, then said, "But all they do is shame America ... through it all, our President stands steadfast." Writing in the New York Times, Franklin R. Gannon, a presidential aide, drew even finer lines. "Even the casual reader wary of undue comparisons will be struck by some of the pertinent and poignant political similarities between Mr. Lincoln's presidency and President Nixon's current troubles." Then...
Fire in the Lakefailed to dent the barriers in my mind that prohibit objective thinking about the war. The book was too mystical and detached to have anything to do with the country I remember...
...major dent in car sales will be felt throughout the economy, forcing production cutbacks in tires, auto parts, eventually steel, and many other industries. If people drive less, companies that rely on car-borne customers are likely to be hurt. Among them: McDonald's hamburgers, Holiday Inns, Walt Disney Productions...
...machines or shortages of petroleum-based raw materials as disparate as chemicals, plastics and textiles. Says Associate U.S. Budget Director John Sawhill: "Sure, the Government can ration oil, but we could wind up rationing steel, aluminum and other things as well." Evaporating gasoline supplies could put a further painful dent in auto sales; car sales in October fell 11.4%. Less travel, the result of diminished auto traffic and cuts in airline schedules, will hurt hotels, restaurants and the producers of such leisure goods as motor homes and snowmobiles...