Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insisting that "going legitimate" hasn't changed her, Ann Corio promises her Harvard admirers that she still loves them, that she hopes they still love her, and that wearing clothes doesn't "hamper...
...bloodthirsty, but let us be realistic and merciless until the end....Let us not hamper our military and naval leaders by sentimentality if they bomb the cities of Japan in order to win this...
...believe that the "obstructionists" will be able to hamper our successful prosecution of a war which Hitler has brought on us. We are glad that they have given us notice of their aims. Charles H. Taylor, Associate Professor of History...
...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
Winter would not, as many might wish, discriminate in favor of the Russians. It would hamper both sides. Perhaps the Russians might be a little better acclimated. Perhaps the Germans might be a little more efficient in coping with weather difficulties. But both sides would suffer. A small difference might arise from one fact: Russians seem not to care how much they suffer...