Word: inflicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toll. Omaha and Council Bluffs were saved from devastation. Downstream lay other cities girded for the flood. The Missouri's crest would continue to inflict damage on the countryside, where farmers' "private" levees could not withstand it. The Army's Chief of Engineers, Lieut. General Lewis Pick, summarized the toll exacted by the Mighty Muddy as its flood passed down river from Omaha: 27 railroads blocked, 83 main highways broken, 87,000 persons displaced, 50 cities & towns flooded, 2,000,000 farm acres swamped, 153 private levees breached-a total of $200 million damage, which would...
...film's contrived script hits its characters with virtually everything that the Korean War can inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
...March 28, 1949). But Antivivisectionist Hearst, whose fees helped pay for the project, was never told. *For producing, directing and starring in the motion picture of the same name, a satire on the life of The Chief, Orson Welles suffered the nearest thing to excommunication that Mr. Hearst could inflict. For years the offending genius could not be mentioned at all in Hearst-papers...
...length and in Technicolor, the film shows that sororities have their points, e.g., a cozy sense of belonging, but none to offset the hurt they inflict on the girls they turn down, or to justify the snobbish values they set up. It pictures the societies through the bright eyes of Freshman Jeanne Grain, who comes to a Midwestern university all atwitter to join Upsilon Upsilon Upsilon...
...question of fact-whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff had or had not supported Douglas MacArthur's proposals for Korea. The basic military dispute was whether to widen the war against China. Would widening it win it? Would it bring World War III with Soviet Russia? Would it inflict a defeat that Russia couldn't counter? Finally there was a question of leadership in the comity of nations. Said Douglas MacArthur, who had shaped his life to the principle: lead, the rest will follow you. Cautioned Harry Truman, in his fashion and tradition: win friends, and hang...