Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, responsible Indian leaders do not wish to hamper the British war effort because the collapse of Britain would make India-like French Indo-China-the prey of the land-grabbing dictators. Meeting last week at Poona, the Indian National Congress Committee took cognizance of a tight situation when it adopted an anti-war but pro-British policy, elected as its leader by 192 to 7 votes the only man in India sufficiently astute to reconcile these two conflicting views-Mahatma Gandhi...
...Kellogg and Dunn had good reason to agree with New Dealer Olds in giving TVA a green light. TVA's sales-both residential and industrial-have been soaring. More than one power-hungry chemical company on TVA's lines feared the growing load might cause a shortage, hamper defense. The steam plant is to insure against a repetition of last fall's hydro shortage, when the valley was visited by a combined boom and drought (TIME...
...their numbers (according to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook last week) greater than ever before. But they are still woefully few compared to the Luftwaffe, which last week, by its comparative inaction, appeared to be gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were...
...formulated and circulated only by those of cultivated experience. On the other hand, it may be, as spokesmen for the collegians plainly described him, that he is one of those 'arm-chair patriots' who feel that nothing should be done, especially by young men, which would in any way hamper the efforts of France and Great Britain in their efforts to subdue Herr Hitler and his allies," the Boston Review continues...
Illinois's New Dealing Kent Keller proposed to retitle Mr. Walter's measure: "The lawyers' emergency relief bill to end unemployment in the legal profession and for no other purpose." The independent Brookings Institution in Washington found that the bill ". . . would seriously retard and hamper the processes of government . . . leave the administration of a statute open to obstructive and dilatory tactics . . . [be] contrary to our basic concepts of the judicial process . . . demoralizing Government departments, destroying their efficiency, delaying the transaction of Government business to an excessive and intolerable degree, and greatly enhancing the cost of government...