Word: hinders
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...falling off it and the starboard engine on fire. When we were at last in a position to attack there were only seven left, four in front and three behind. . . . We had a real field day making attack after attack-a few Me. 1095 turned up but did not hinder us. The Ju. 88s went down all over the place. The scrap started at 13,000 ft. and the bombers just pushed their throttles wide open and screamed downhill in a vain attempt to get away. We bagged the lot, the last three coming down in the sea. My ammunition...
...Finland was thoughtlessly classed with the conquered and occupied countries of Europe. Its relief problems were loosely lumped with those of nations under the Axis thumb. Many people misguidedly feared that help for unblockaded Finland, which was in fact in the same international position as Portugal or Switzerland, might hinder Britain and aid Hitler...
...Administration, and J. Franklin Ebersole, professor of Finance, pleaded for sanity in taking steps to ward off inflation, and, as Williams emphasized, "We must be careful not to take premature steps to step inflation, for by so doing we might at the same time create further unemployment, which would hinder defense...
...informed himself 'as to the type of work involved in various jobs that will be thrust at him . . . is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system!' . . . Perhaps your conclusion means that it is the function of a conscientious objector to do all that he can to hinder and defeat war preparations by others. If so, I suggest that this is beyond the legitimate scope of the activities of a conscientious objector...
What are our people thinking of in opposing the selective draft as a means of an immediate enlargement of our armed forces? . . . To preach "peace" now, to hinder in any way a sensible, reasonable, immediate enlargement of our forces, reveals downright ignorance, selfishness, cowardice or duplicity...