Word: inflicter
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They grow up to 2 in. long and 1 in. thick. Their piercing mandibles can inflict painful bites. They have an insatiable appetite for bushes, bark, gardens and crops. And now, in the worst outbreak since the 1930s, a huge army ; of these mini-monsters is hatching in a 700,000-acre swath of northern Nevada and poised for an expected May Day assault on anything chewable in its path...
...appeal to environmentalists, the notion of pitting bugs against drugs may never be hatched. Bolivia and Peru object that the insects could inflict damage on citrus and other legal crops. Said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We are not undertaking any biological war. Neither troops nor caterpillars will go in without prior request and consultation...
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace...such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value...that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly out-weighed by the social interest in order and morality...
...want them to do. Being cooperative did not get them much last year." This official would prefer to trade favors and make deals -- to allow the Democrats "to be the winners sometimes to get what we want." But Sununu and others, adds the official, "have a real desire to inflict pain for its own sake...
Stuart's story gained even more credibility because of the severity of his wound. Though he apparently meant to shoot himself in the foot, he somehow ended up with a bullet in his abdomen. It was hard to imagine that anyone would inflict injuries so severe that he would need two operations, ten days in intensive care and six weeks in the hospital, that he would damage his bowels, gall bladder and liver merely to deflect suspicion from himself...