Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This wrecking process had two objectives: 1) to put a long-term strain on Italy's resources; 2) to hamper the enemy's efforts to amass sufficient reserves of food, munitions and transport for the defense of the islands which cannot long subsist on their own resources...
Where to Attack? The Russians had every reason to attack, first to hamper preparations for German offensives, second to complete the defeat of the Axis in Russia. They had wounded the Germans badly during the winter; they were probably stronger in 1943 than they had been in 1942, the Germans were probably weaker. From one end of the front to the other, Russian offensives could...
...compromise to top Senators and Representatives. Into his office trooped a group of C.I.O. leaders to demand a veto of certain labor bills (outlawing jurisdictional strikes, calling for union elections at least every four years). Harold Stassen looked at the bills, said he did not think they would hamper "good unions." The conference broke up amicably; said a departing C.I.O. leader: "Sink a few Japs for us, Governor...
...this way, each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with the Nieman fellows and other graduate students, chronic samplers of Harvard teaching, has shown that no professor has to alter his lecture or make any introductory remarks before addressing an interested outsider...
Responsible Army and Navy officers staked their reputations (and the safety of cities) on the conviction that the Japanese operations in the Aleutians are mainly defensive: 1) to hamper the U.S. in setting up bases from which to bomb Japan; 2) to scare the U.S. into concentrating its planes nearer home...