Word: inflicter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late perhaps, White House advisers decided to try to make the charged politics of abortion work for them. Though some concede they would have preferred to save a defining battle over abortion for the 1996 presidential campaign, the President's inner circle hopes at least to inflict pain on the Republicans by forcing the debate now. ``We stumbled into the fight, but now that we're in it, we see that it's a fight we want to have,'' says an aide. ``[It] will speak volumes about who controls the Republican Party.'' He adds...
...five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent weeks, Dole has downplayed attempts to repeal the ban on assault weapons, and he appears genuinely repelled by the pain that the contract's welfare reforms could inflict...
...Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo -- one of only 30 numbered copies -- was one of 44 million WW II, Korean and Vietnam war documents recently declassified by President Clinton...
Despite all the harsh assessments, Scarlett was a commercial success; it has sold 20 million copies worldwide and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 34 weeks. Now CBS plans to capitalize on -- or, rather, re-inflict -- Scarlett fever with an eight-hour, four-part mini-series based on Ripley's sequel (beginning this Sunday...
...fellow holding forth on all these evils was keeping any of the girls, or even myself, from getting a word in edgewise. His consciousness-raising lecture only had the effect of panicking them. I resented his glib determinism, which essentially dismissed all possibility of rising above the evils men inflict upon women. For a group of Southern girls, many from traditional backgrounds (one girl's mother was alarmed when her daughter confessed to wearing jeans and a baseball cap to class instead of bothering to dress up for the boys every day), these revelations were hardly a successful call...