Word: hindered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neutral. Eisenhower and Nixon have repeatedly denied any anti-Goldwater bias and have promised not to interfere, at least for the present. Former Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall, who could give powerful aid to a moderate coalition because of his popularity among party workers, reportedly will do nothing to hinder the Senator's campaign...
...railroads, acting jointly, have announced their intention of revising the work rules and the wage-base formula that the unions won over the course of generations. The old rules and formulas, largely antiquated by technological changes, hinder them with additional and unnecessary costs of $600 million a year, the railroads claim. Under the work rules that foster featherbedding, many thousands of railroad workers do little or no necessary work...
Simple Reason. Diem's intransigence has dismayed U.S. officials, who fear that mounting Buddhist discontent can only hinder the war effort against the Viet Cong, just when it is beginning to go well. Over the past year, government forces and their 14,000 U.S. military "advisers" have vastly increased their mobility and striking power against the Red guerrillas. More than 7,000 "strategic hamlets" have been built, now protect 8,000,000 Vietnamese from Viet Cong raids...
...gunnery shrieked, whirled, moaned, whistled and wrathfully fluttered over our ground . . . Through the midst of the storm of screaming and exploding shells, an ambulance, driven by its frenzied conductor at full speed, presented to all of us the marvellous spectacle of a horse going rapidly on three legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock . . ." How You Are Envied. "Then there was a lull, and we knew that the rebel infantry was charging. And splendidly they did this work-the highest and severest test of the stuff that soldiers are made of. Hill's division...
...would turn out to be. Considering the continuing U.S. deficit in international payments, there could conceivably be a benefit in having at least a few U.S. dollars turned back at the border. Yet that effect might be offset by the new sales tax on building materials, which could seriously hinder U.S. export sales to Canada...