Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linguistic enmities hamper understanding and cause bloodshed among Asians, who speak more than 3,000 languages and dialects. The most recent linguistic flare-up came in February, after New Delhi tried to establish Hindi as the official tongue, although it is understood by less than 45% of India's population. Scores of pro-Hindi partisans were beaten, stabbed or trampled to death in protest riots by South Indians, who fear losing government jobs to Hindi speakers...
...Johnson, for one, agrees with them. In his economic report to the Congress (see following story), the President last week wrote: "Economic policy has begun to liberate itself from the preconceptions of an earlier day and from the bitterness of class or partisan division that becloud rational discussion and hamper rational action." He not only proclaimed that the state of the economy is "excellent," but also predicted a "rising tide of prosperity" that will continue not only through the rest of this year but into the foreseeable future...
...dearth of music written for the cello by the great classical and romantic composers. Starker, a professor of music at Indiana University since 1958, takes heart from the wealth of cello compositions being turned out by modern composers. But he admits that the instrument's sober reputation might hamper its achieving the popularity of its high-strung relative, the violin...
...injuries may hamper Harvard and it would be remarkable if the Crimson didn't make a few more mistakes this week. There were no fumbles or pass interceptions last week, no serious mistakes at all except John McCluskey's bobble. That kind of errorless ball just doesn't happen two weeks in a row, no matter what team you play...
Manhattan is riddled with cute shoplets run by cute young men who know just how to turn Grandmother's laundry hamper into the most amusing planter for the living room. Real brass bedsteads might as well be made of solid gold, and signed Tiffany lamps, which sold for $100-$150 ten years ago, now cost...