Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jumping Jacks (Hal Wallis; Paramount) continues the service misadventures of Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Having already created havoc in the Army (At War with the Army) and the Navy (Sailor Beware), they now inflict their frantic talents on the airborne infantry...
...wrote poems. Over a period of ten years, he completed six of them, and Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs...
...While the U.N. command still can inflict "a very severe defeat" if the Communists attempt a "major offensive," its relative combat strength "is perhaps not as favorable as it was a year...
Retaliation. The next obvious question was, what can the U.S. do if the war is renewed? The Communists have used the long stalemate to build up their forces, their antiaircraft fire and their air force to the point where the U.S. probably cannot inflict enough damage in Korea to make the Reds give in on the prisoner issue or any other issue. Last week in Paris, U.S. Statesman John Foster Dulles, seven weeks retired as State Department adviser on the Far East, had an answer...
...Divest problems will inflict you on this task...