Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. was appalled. If only 25% of its 4,500,000 subscribers asked for asterisks, argued its lawyers, Pacific would have to spend $4,300,000 to convert its directories. Granting McDaniel's petition, they added, would hamper charity drives and put phone solicitors (one market surveyor has 10,000 of them) out of work. Moreover, the state legislature would have to enact new laws making it a misdemeanor to ignore asterisks...
...which dictates a syrupy clarinet-like sound, Marx seeks an oboe tone that is vibrant, reedy, and flexible. He liberally scorns the rank and file of American oboists who seem ashamed to play on double reeds, using, in their overweening desire for a heavy rich tone, thick reeds which hamper the development of virtuoso technique, and limit the player's freedom to phrase and vary his tone color. Obviously, Marx has no concern for playing with music, or for producting a smooth fat sound that he can drag along from note to note...
Against Yale, Harvard skated as though it wanted to avoid injuries which might hamper it in tomorrow night's ECAC tournament opener at Clarkson. However, Ike Ikauniks made a significant achievement--his goal and assist ran his Harvard career point total up to 85, tenth best in Crimson history...
Today's Soviet youth are the first to grow up free of Stalinism. They are also the first generation to grow up with famine, poverty, and war. Impatient at the restrictions that remain to hamper life, they are nevertheless glad to be Soviet citizens in an age of promise. They can drain a glass of vodka with a single swallow. They read every new Russian novel from cover to cover, and they know (in translation) Hemingway and Salinger better than...
...hockey team renews its Ivy League struggles against Cornell tomorrow in Ithaca. Despite its 4-2 win over B.C. Wednesday and its five-game winning streak, the Crimson can't afford to relax. In Ivy competition, Harvard holds a 0-1 record and another loss would severely hamper the Crimson's pursuit of its fourth straight title...