Word: hamperful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson took advantage of two Bowdoin weaknesses to control the puck for most of the rest of the game. Some-times they would skate up to a Polar Bear defender, flip the puck over his stick, and fly by to regain control of the disc, with no checks to hamper them...
...substituted strength for weakness all over the globe, encouraging nations struggling to be free to stand on their own two feet. To weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy; it will hamper our security. It will waste our present investment...
...drizzle that came down throughout the first half did not seem to dappen competitive spirits, but it did hamper ball handling. For a pleasant change, it was not Harvard that suffered from fumblitis, however. On several important occasions Princeton killed its own motion with bobbles, usually committed on the snap. The Crimson, which has suffered chronic difficulty in holding the ball, fumbled but once in the half, and on that occasion Harvard recovered...
...with any country, including Germany, was absolutely necessary to England. As an island which relies heavily on the importation of raw materials, Britain has always depended on an extensive international trade. After the Depression of 1932-3, inflation constantly threatened to wreck her balance of payments and thereby to hamper her economic recovery severely. The government was forced to keep all trade channels open at any cost. Britain had a heavy trade surplus with Germany and efforts to seek further trade with the Germans were unavoidable...
Asked whether the U.S. should alter its military strategy and bomb the Communist capital of Hanoi, Barry replied, "I don't think so. It does us no good to bomb a city and kill a million innocent people. Now, I think if we were to bomb a port and hamper their supply lines, that would be different...