Word: inflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German advance was no bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken...
Adolf Hitler spent scarcely three hours in his newest territory, but he had time to deliver a speech in which he said: "What we can expect from the other world we know. We do not have the intention to inflict suffering on this other world; however, the sufferings that it inflicted on us we had to make good again and I believe that in essentials we have already arrived at the conclusion of this unique restitution...
This just about lined up western Europe tacitly against Spain's Reds, caused them this week to stake everything on desperate sorties from Madrid, frantic efforts to inflict on the White besiegers quick losses heavy enough to make Europe change its mind...
...dispatches last week, was so far from angering Haile Selassie thereby that the Emperor asked him two days later to read off for His Majesty in English a radio broadcast to U. S. listeners in which the wily Ethiopian cried: "You people of the United States can help . . . inflict ... the international form of punishment, known as sanctions, upon the Italian people." But the King of Kings concluded, "I ask no one to take the sword against Italy...
...night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were robbed of the ease of familiarity...