Word: hinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with steadily increasing concern that I note the continuance of abysmal ignorance concerning "what the war is all about" among my fellow members of the Army. This lack of understanding may not hinder our winning of the war, but it will most certainly put the skids under our winning of the peace if we don't look out. If, as seems to be the case, 99% of our soldiers have nothing better in mind than to "get the hell home as fast as possible" after the war, and forget the rest of the world forever, we will have...
...nearly four years a policy of strict neutrality has kept the Turkish bridge from being used by belligerents. But now Turkey, by virtue of her geographical location, can help or hinder the Allies in their offensive strategy-by keeping her neutrality, or by relinquishing...
...blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother or hinder...
...curriculum more limited, and in the near future the choice of electives can be expected to meet much greater restrictions. The liberal arts and survey courses, in which English A training has always played its most important role, are not among these fields of special wartime interest. To hinder, rather than free the choice and progress of the new class in its scientific concentration is to apply one annoying brake on an educational machine that is trying on the whole to accelerate...
...same from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. There was nothing to hinder the Nazis but the hatred they bred. Europe waited for the United Nations to act. The United Nations waited for Churchill and U.S. military men to make up their minds...