Word: hamstringing
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The headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end. In tattered remnants of once-proud divisions they still fought bitter pocket skirmishes.
There were problems of routes and communications through Italy's foot. The middle of the Calabrian peninsula was a high and rugged hump, with narrow plains running around its coasts. The hump, the end of the Apennines, continued straight up Italy like a backbone. Main trunk lines, perforce, trailed...
At the end of World War I, U.S. indus try had on its hands $3,600,000,000 in un delivered war contracts. When World War II ends, U.S. industry may be buried under $75,000,000,000 worth. How this Atlantean burden may hamstring recon version to peacetime production...
Next day, at 2:30 p.m., balding House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the...
More than a mere economy stroke, the reduction amounted to a rebuke to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt who had warned that rejection of his request for an added $2,540,000 for the U. S. Employment Service might hamstring the whole manpower program.