Word: affliction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like that one, did you?" he asks. Some folks say he's too liberal. Wiggins laughs: "My children and grandchildren are always telling me what a reactionary old bastard I am." He enjoys citing the saying that a newspaper should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." But Wiggins can be a softy too. His reporters remember his weeping when a Christmas caroler from a home for wayward boys put his arms around him. Then there is the Wiggins who laughs until he tears. He passes on the latest story from his friend and sailing partner, Walter -- Cronkite, that...
...crisis with their nearly successful August uprising. "They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield." As she issued rapid- fire orders for road repair, garbage collection, telephone-line maintenance and an end to the constant power brownouts that afflict the capital, her listeners interrupted the speech with at least 27 rounds of applause...
...YORK--Stocks tumbled in frantic trading yesterday, dousing hopes of quick recovery from the market's historic crash and raising fears that violent financial spasms may afflict the world indefinitely...
...Ford had little time to savor its new European connection before making an embarrassing announcement. The company said it planned to recall 4.3 million cars, light trucks and vans to correct fuel-system defects that have caused some 230 engine fires and injured 16 people. The problems afflict vehicles with fuel-injected engines from the 1986 through 1988 model years, including the Mercury Sable, the Ford Taurus and the Aerostar van. Ford's ! recall is the largest by a U.S. automaker since 1981, and could be a setback to the company's newly regained reputation for high quality...
...could lead to the creation of machines capable of walking, improvising tasks and seeing (some robots can already do this crudely, through computerized video cameras). By then, the robots' masters may have learned how to exploit their wondrous inventions without falling into the kind of painful doldrums that now afflict their once glamorous industry...