Word: hamstrung
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...problem is serious,"said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, as the organization's financial crisis that has hamstrung the 19th Assembly dragged into still another week. The U.N., he had only $14.6 million cash on hand needed $9,000,000 a month simply to meet payrolls around the world and normal operating expenses. As for accounts payable, some $136 million in overdue assessments were on the U.N.'s books, and U Thant issued for the first time the names of the 16 delinquents: Russia and eight other Communist nations, France, Belgium, Haiti, Paraguay, South Africa, Yemen and Bolivia...
...Hamstrung in Court. Refreshingly, Macapagal and Lyndon Johnson have no great crises to resolve. They would sign a few prearranged agreements, renew old friendships, and for Macapagal the two days in Washington would have the added advantage of bolstering his prestige at home. For he faces a tough battle for re-election next year...
...Macapagal is hamstrung by the Philippine Supreme Court, which has reversed him nine times, and by an opposition-dominated Senate. Many of his reforms have been denied the appropriations necessary to make them work. More erosive to his chances for re-election is Macapagal's own personality-or lack of it. Volatile Filipinos want a volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits...
...United Nations commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, complained to Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios that his U.N. peacekeeping force was hamstrung by Greek Cypriot restrictions. Typically, Makarios was polite and evasive. The U.N. contingents had no intention of standing in the middle of a shooting war: indeed, their governments had threatened to fly the men home...
...Democratic Party are forces which by their very nature collide. It is a party of dreams on the one hand, and of reaction on the other. The party when it dreams has noble thoughts of shining cities, equal opportunities and social progress. The party when it governs is hamstrung by its reactionaries, who smash the dreams into tiny, unrecognizable pieces. The present majority party has failed to meet its responsibilities to American society because half of the party refuses to practice what the other half preaches...