Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considerable top hamper fell to the deck. The action was then broken off. The Admiral trimmed ship and hauled himself off the reef with his kedge, and stood off majestically down the corridors of the Senate Office Building...
...pair were like snakes within a narrowing circle of fatal fire. From Hamburg Doenitz broadcast his only policy: "It is my first task to save the German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.... As long as the British and Americans hamper us from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk...
Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
...even wartime shortages of materials under the Nazis could hamper Paris style. Hats grew huge, vast, fantastic as imagination ran riot and millinery grew scarce. Now a common sight in Paris streets are poke bonnets of brilliant-colored straws, some 18 inches tall, and veil-draped hats reminiscent of the voluminous headgear worn by turn-of-the-century motorists. Earrings are enormous and unorthodox. Some, as big as oranges, dangle from ear to shoulder. Shoes, because leather was scarce, are wooden-soled with wedge heels three inches high...
...Cecil B. De Mille has great respect for fact. But he is a born romancer, a highly experienced showman, and old-fashioned in both fields. His talents, as well as his limitations, conspire to turn a saga of simple heroism into a typical Hollywood entertainment feature. But they also hamper this picture as simple entertainment...