Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Reid put a crimp in a favorite military pastime: smuggling in goods for resale at a fat profit. Quietly and firmly, he saw to it that all returning planes and navy vessels were searched for contraband...
...draft system and military manpower policy which he had ordered. The outcome, he said, might indicate the possibility of ending the draft within a decade. Again, he rattled off a dizzying array of statistics, including some to show how a nationwide rail strike would put a disastrous crimp in the economy. And there were a few more words about his political plans: "I have tried to be President of all the people," Johnson said. "I'm going to try to stay out of the campaign field as long as possible...
Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen tumble in the hay together without even knowing each other's names, but they don't actually meet until poor Natalie's with child. As you can imagine, this puts a crimp in their romance but lends real direction to the plot...
Five straight years of poor harvests not only helped crimp Russia's economic expansion, but, by forcing the government to buy grain abroad, also reduced its gold reserves to a level estimated by the CIA at considerably less than $2 billion. There was a slight drop in industrial production, which grew at a rate of nearly 6% annually in the past two years v. 7% in the U.S. Moreover, the CIA sees little chance that Russia will again be able to achieve the sustained high overall growth rate (7.4% on average) that marked its economy in the 1950s...
Pennsylvania's narrow field may crimp the varsity's passing game, since outsiders, insiders, and defenders will have little room to roam. "We will really have to thread the needle," commented Munro...