Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Debacle. Still, U.S. air action did little to hamper Red infiltration. Heavy pounding of North Vietnamese roads and bridges has only driven the Communists to sea or else to Cambodia. Over the past month, U.S. jets have been sinking sampans, junks and other vessels at record rates-1,000 in the past month alone. But the biggest prize last week fell to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition...
...regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped put up a good fight-but reluctantly (see following story). The Reds were saving their strength for the monsoon, waiting for the rain-rich thunderheads that hamper American air strikes. And they were doing a lot of their waiting in the sanctuary of neighboring, "neutral" Cambodia...
Peter K. Gunness '57, assistant director of Admissions stressed that the small size of Harvard's grant will not hamper the student aid program. "We did not plan on getting any money," he said, "so the grant makes it that much easier to do the job we have...
...contract, the greater his leeway. The obvious strength of the manager's position may suggest the possibility of corruption, but no one in Cambridge hints that there has been corruption under Curry. The very reason for adopting the city manager plan here in the early '40's was to hamper hanky-panky by vesting the manager with wide powers, and it seems to have had that effect...
...Spain, most corporations now give the traditional ccsta, a hamper of food, wines and liquors, some of which cost up to several hundred dollars and require several men to transport. The British are big on food hampers, desk equipment, pen and pencil sets and cocktail accessories, have stepped up their overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum...