Word: hamperful
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Winter would not, as many might wish, discriminate in favor of the Russians. It would hamper both sides. Perhaps the Russians might be a little better acclimated. Perhaps the Germans might be a little more efficient in coping with weather difficulties. But both sides would suffer. A small difference might arise from one fact: Russians seem not to care how much they suffer...
...Sing Sing and into a waiting limousine popped Richard Whitney, paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...
...most to help or hamper the progress of U.S. defense is the chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Last week the Senate's No. i clown...
...strategy in the Mediterranean was hinged on the premise that Britain could not even dream of going on to the offense against Germany until 1942. The aim meanwhile was to use Britain's in adequate forces in as many places as possible to delay, hamper, bother and hurt the Nazi machine as much as possible. In the colorful language of Colonel William Joseph Donovan, who talked with General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell not long ago, the British "had a toe hold and wanted to make it a foothold...
...against these same idle, curious bystanders who could be turned into hysterical, panicked refugees. The most probable military use of gas would be at traffic and rail intersections behind the lines, to confuse communications. Against troops, in a war of speedy motion, some of the most efficient gases would hamper the attacker as much as the defender. But against civilians it might have great effect. The British expect that if gas is used, it will be sprayed by airplanes or dropped in bombs on populous centres...