Word: hinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
...Centers of Power. Clearly Russia and her minions were girded for a powerful polemical battle-not to stop the North Atlantic pact, since it was now an accomplished fact, but to weaken and delay its implementation, hinder its extension, sow distrust of its intentions. Beyond polemics there would be further pressure -among other places, in Eastern Germany, where the Russian occupation authority last week pushed the formation of a Communist state; in the Far East, where the victorious Chinese Communists denounced the North Atlantic pact, and declared that they would stand solidly behind Moscow in any future...
...varsity lost both its mile and two mile events. Slow baton-passing seemed to hinder the runners' efforts. Their time for the mile was 3:30.5, with Harvey Thayer doing the fastest laps...
...should be restored to about the 1936 level. Under this plan 682 plant units from the Anglo-American zones and 233 from the French zone were earmarked for dismantling. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress a feeling began to grow that plant removal was a wasteful business, that it might hinder the Marshall Plan and add to the U.S. taxpayer's burden. Hoffman wants to be able to tell Congress next year that waste has been minimized...
Rainy weather, which left Soldiers Field in muddy condition, did not hinder the powerful ground attacks of the Mastodons and the Deacons, who combined fast backfields with hard-charging line play to run up their decisive victory margins...