Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Search for Stability. Ideally, nations would so order their economies as to keep their payments in balance over the long run. The search for such stability is greatly complicated by the world's increasing dependence on foreign trade, which means that shifts in one big national economy can inflict much damage on neighbors. Because West Germany's recession led to a sharp drop in imports and a surge of exports, both Belgium and The Netherlands suffered payments deficits in 1966, rebounding last year only after German business picked up again. Italy paid a heavy price in unemployment...
...Carrot. On Dec. 1, 1934, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was assassinated in Leningrad. It was this event that Stalin chose to use as the excuse to rid himself of all potential opposition-real and imagined-and to inflict the cult of terror that would ensure his dictatorship...
...accurate North Vietnamese mortarmen did manage to inflict some spectacular damage on Dak To before pulling back. Firing 82-mm. mortars from less than two miles away, the Communists destroyed two big C-130 transport planes sitting on the Dak To airstrip. Then, in a second attack the same day, they scored a direct hit on the hastily built-up Dak To ammunition dump. For the next eight hours U.S. soldiers in and around Dak To cowered in their bunkers while tracer bullets arced in all directions, flares popped like fireworks and shells exploded. Seven tons of C-4 plastic...
What is Stanley's crime? Are Goldberg and McCann agents of a murder ring, symbols of organized society, or instruments of fate? What torture do the pair inflict on Stanley? Rarely has Pinter left more to the playgoer's imagination. The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse. Basically, the play lacks the athletic snap and resonance of The Caretaker's dialogue and the musky animal magnetism of The Homecoming family. But whether or not he baffles playgoers, Harold Pinter exerts a modish appeal...
...bank that has repossesed his house by shooting up the sign they have placed on his lawn. It is the act of shooting, not its effect, that gives Bonnie and Clyde their stature. Both they and their admirers are curiously blind to the impact of the slaughter they inflict...