Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said the use of power politics should not hamper the development of a lasting world peace. The distribution of influence in the "power vacuums" left by the defeat of Germany and Japan is the only real problem facing the peace makers...
...people had picked a favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time...
...stayed in the dried-milk business," he said the other day in his London club, "I'd be rich. But I swore long ago that I would never have possessions. Now I have my clothes, a few books and one hamper. I can move any time...
...Publisher. The stories in The Doll were written in Devonshire during the war, stuck in the hamper and almost forgotten. Blackwood dug them out when
When Gandhi led Congress into civil disobedience after the failure of the Cripps mission in 1942, Jinnah ordered his Moslems to take no part, promised a "state of benevolent neutrality" that would not hamper the British in fighting the Japanese. He boasted that if his followers joined Gandhi's pacifist program, the British would have 500 times more trouble "because we have 500 times more guts than the Hindus." He recalled past glories of the Mogul Emperor Baber ("The Tiger") and other Moslem warriors: "The Moslems have been slaves for only 200 years but the Hindus have been slaves...