Word: impairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tinsel-like strips, similar to the shredded British-designed material called window used with great success by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers in World War II to impair the accuracy of Hitler's radar-controlled antiaircraft guns...
...Fullbright laments in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs. "Even in Britain the illusion has become widespread, although not in official circles, that somehow the United Kingdom can be neutral in the worldwide power struggle....France has lessened her military participation in NATO and taken other steps which greatly impair the effectiveness of the alliance. Germany adheres loyally to NATO but refuses to accept an obligation commensurate with her wealth and resources ... to carry out the common Western responsibility for assisting the world's underdeveloped nations...
...include a number of contribution from "recognized writers" and two or three new poems of Mr. Lowell's, in addition to several articles by Harvard writers. Such issues have occurred three times in the Advocate's recent history, about once every ten years, and have surely done nothing to impair "the magazine's amateur status." Burton A. Meinick, President, The Harvard Advocate
...Standing was also designed to improve American education by rewarding schools that gave particularly good preparation. The College's privileges of leadership have given rise to serious and somewhat unpleasant obligations. The Administration feels, for example, that abandoning Soph Standing is absolutely out of the question because it would impair the prestige of the national advanced placement program...
...last month (TIME, April 7). Speaking for those states, Houphouet-Boigny says: "We have chosen, frankly, the West. We do not wish to engage in war; we do not wish to have the enmity of any group. But we know how to choose our friends: those who will not impair our liberty." Houphouet-Boigny would ultimately like to see the same sort of solidarity emerge from the Monrovia nations. "Our hope is that Africa will become a huge Switzerland...