Word: hamstringing
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Ever since the U.S. thoughtlessly suggested five years ago that the United Nations try to legislate freedom of the press throughout the world, U.S. editors and diplomats alike have regretted the proposal. Nations where the press has little freedom quickly seized on the proposal as a method to hamstring press...
"The British public, musically speaking, still lives in the 19th Century . . . The general complacency of British taste not only keeps people away from stimulating new musical experiences, but it also leads audiences to accept second-rate performances." Smith's judgment of his critical cousins was just as severe. "Criticism...
Any French politician had to say this, but the U.S. leaders were under no compulsion to let the French hamstring action on Germany as they had in the past. All that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long...
No ordinary stay-at-home citizen knows whether the use of the atomic bomb against the enemy is good military strategy now. But if the strategists decide that a telling blow with the bomb might be struck, we would be foolish indeed to hamstring ourselves for fear of being considered...
To Hamstring & Delay. As the second week of Security Council meetings opened, under Malik's presidency, the first business should have been a discussion of North Korean aggression, with South Korean representatives taking part. But not with Malik presiding. That was why the Kremlin had sent him back to...