Word: inflicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commented Le Monde: "It may seem too cruel to force those in extremis who have never traveled third class or used the public transport services or had to go steerage to go to their last destination in circumstances which nothing in their lifetime has prepared them for, and to inflict on them a dying so completely contrary to their living. It would be charity to accustom them to equality at a slightly earlier date in their lives...
...living in a community. There is a lot to be said for the assertion that the self holds less interest for others than do issues which affect everyone. If some of "our generation," silent or unsilent, choose to investigate themselves, that is their choice; but they should not inflict on the world the impression that all young people have found ghastly the prospects of every day life. Perhaps we have sung one too many hosannas over the grave of Dr. Freud...
...opinion on the constitutional points involved, dissented on the ground of insufficient evidence. But Hugo Black wrote a dissenting opinion for himself, Chief Justice Earl Warren and William Douglas, which struck at the foundations of the judiciary's enforcement powers. Wrote Black: "The power of a judge to inflict punishment for criminal contempt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anomaly in the law . . . No official, regardless of his position or the purity and nobleness of his character, should be granted such autocratic omnipotence...
...much inhumanity can a man bear to inflict on his fellow men before his conscience calls a halt? The answer to this question is the substance of a harrowing little novel from Holland that combines the impact of a documentary film with the prodding of a remorseless sermon. The scene is Westerbork, a concentration camp in occupied Holland, from which Jews were sent on to Auschwitz, Sobibor and other extermination centers in Eastern Europe. The book's real heroes and villains are Jews, while the Nazis are seen only as almost impersonal agents of evil...
Power Misunderstood. "The only deterrent to the imposition of Russian will in Western Europe is the belief that, from the outset of any such attempt, American power would be employed in stopping it, and, if necessary, would inflict upon the Soviet Union injury which the Moscow regime would not wish to suffer. The regime will not believe that this will happen if the U.S. and Western Europe are separated and stand alone...