Word: hamstringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Up stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill...
"Confidence, I asked the way to the next town, and was shown the road to 'Nelli's Aprin' the local metropolis, a village of 150 inhabitauts. I discovered that other settlements in te vicinity were named 'Skylight FiftySix', and Hamstring!".
The Commons- ¶ I Upheld the Baldwin Conservative Government 338 to 152 in its watchful waiting policy of dealing with the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) which has reputedly cost the Empire to date a sum equivalent to $1,000,000,000. ¶ Heard Liberal leader Lloyd George...
Many a Spaniard was vexed at Dictator Primo's exalted connivance at providing Abd-el-Krim with opulent support for life on a balmy isle 45 miles long, 32 wide and only 380 miles off the coast of Madagascar. At Madrid the slogan, "Hamstring Abd-el-Krim!" has long...
Meanwhile Deputy Andre Tardieu, a somewhat unattached champion of the Right, set out to hamstring whatever negotiations might be going on between M. Caillaux and foreign bankers, among whom there was even mentioned Dr. Schacht of the German Reichsbank In order to embarrass Caillaux, Deputy Tardieu relentlessly interpolated Premier Briand...