Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer need tourists humble themselves before la grande indifférence that Parisians traditionally inflict on visitors. By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance...
...taped "confession," which was played for Photographer Lockwood and 100 other spectators just before the grotesque bowing scene, was almost as ludicrous. "The second of December was to be an air-wing strike on the suburbs of Hanoi," it said, for which "antipersonnel weapons were chosen to inflict maximum damage on the population. Privately most of the pilots were appalled at the pacific nature of the target. I was inwardly ashamed at being such a coward...
...deterrent system a country may install, it will not deter an enemy bent on using nuclear weapons. All the belligerent nation need do is deposit nuclear explosives underwater off the coast of the target country, wait until the winds are just right, and detonate the weapon. The fallout will inflict the damage...
...just: "Those wars may be defined as just which avenge injuries" or repel aggression. A just war must be fought with Christian love for the enemy-the Sermon on the Mount was supposed to be followed as "an inward disposition." No one, wrote the saint, "is fit to inflict punishment save the one who has first overcome hate in his heart. The love of enemies admits of no dispensation, but love does not exclude wars of mercy waged by the good...
...South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell declared that Hanoi's "intransigence" left the U.S. with "no choice but to inflict greater punishment on the Communists...