Word: hamstrung
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...Motives. French labor unionists, rallying behind a surprisingly forceful new Premier, Robert Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS),hamstrung a Communist maneuver to paralyze France with strikes. After a week of tension in which the fate of the Fourth Republic hung in the balance, French workers were pouring back to their jobs, disregarding the pleas of Communist leaders...
...headquarters in Berlin have instructed their agents in Western Germany to "utilize to the fullest possible extent the dismantling issue to mobilize toilers in a militant protest against Anglo-American reaction." If such protests are effective, German production will be cut and realization of the Marshall Plan will be hamstrung...
...content with a disconnected cluster of acts, Mr. Daves has hamstrung his movie by injecting a series of truly fascinating coincidences into the plot. Lauren Bacall just happens to be near San Quentin when Bogy escapes, a blackmailer just happens to pick him up in a car, thereby wasting thirty minutes of story time, and the killer just happens to cheat justice by carelessly stumbling out a twenty-five story window...
...Bock prescribed bed and quiet for all Harvard undergraduates hamstrung by colds. He frowned on the use of alcoholic remedies of the bottled type as possible treatment, and questioned their potency...
Constitution had given Brazilian newspapers unaccustomed freedom, and had wiped out the hated, Vargas-style government-by-decree that hamstrung businessmen because they never knew when a law might change overnight...