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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Their decay proceeded without a ready supply of oxygen, producing hydrocarbons like methane instead of oxygen-bearing molecules.
Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas?|Matthew R. Francis|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Political Order and Political Decay Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) How are strong democratic states created?
The Best Big Ideas Of 2014|William O’Connor|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.
How the Lame Democrats Blew It|Goldie Taylor|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The General in command of the station was a feeble old man, suffering from senile decay.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It will hold tenaciously there, the last of its race, days after the decay of its greener and more healthy-looking mates.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The decay and ruin of nearly all the "old families" in Ireland are among the penalties of disregarding it.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The old dining-hall had shared in the general decay, and been shorn of all its ancient honours.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson