Word: hindering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial society. Wyatt acidly added that the White Paper would turn steel "into a branch of the civil service. It is written as though the last 13 years [since the Tories denationalized steel] had never happened. It has no new ideas, and instead of helping the industry, will actually hinder it." Besides, he added, "there is no urgency to nationalize steel at this moment" in the country. It was one of those classic British understatements. That morning's Gallup poll showed that only 30% favored nationalization, and Labor's 8% lead with the voters had been replaced...
...result of these activities," it continues, "has been to curtail the discussion of controversial issues and to hinder the development of new ideas and new approaches to the troublesome questions which face us in this rapidly changing world...
...sprawling Villa Tremolo, where he keeps his women (among them such Bergman favorites as Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson), Maestro Felix is heard but seldom seen. The women are the issue, for the artist's playthings, like his public, adore him, scorn him, help him, hinder him, pay him all the tributes that mediocrity pays to genius-and when he is gone, they quickly find another genius to take his place...
...Romance poses problems in production as well; it has two marked shifts in tone, skims blithely through time, and in the last act brings Hermione back from the dead. But such things hinder the Summer School Players only slightly. Under the direction of Paul Schmidt they present a Winter's Tale which manages the seasonal shifts and emotional polarities with general grace and case...
...wants to hinder the course of justice, but must it run amok?" The language of Hamburg's Welt am Sonntag was inordinately strong, but then the German press and public had taken an inordinately long time to get upset. The cause of the outcry was an old German legal custom called Untersuchungshaft (investigative arrest), which has its roots in Roman law and allows a prosecutor to jail a mere suspect for years-so long as he can convince a judge that the man might flee the country or tamper with evidence and witnesses...