Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Planning Department report also warned of the harm such traffic might inflict on East Cambridge and chided the CRA for ignoring the City's transportation policy, which encourages mass transportation and discourages automobiles...
...Cloud and other Oglala Sioux eventually signed the treaty, primarily because they had no real choice. The cavalry had already assumed control of the Hills, although one non-signer-Sitting Bull-managed to inflict a horrible defeat on General George A. Custer...
...Kraus plan is supposed to be traversed by "merit-based grants," Harvard's euphemism for monetary bait to lure "bright" students away from other graduate schools. Grants based on merit, awarded by departmental Faculty, inflict an inherent bias on our liberal academic community--a "bright" student might turn out to be one who parrots his academic sponsor's line. The College long ago eliminated this auctioning for students: the GSAS should follow suit...
...Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor blade to inflict physical suffering on herself, and they were trying to stop her. We left the funeral and drove back to Saigon, hardly speaking...
...Heal the angry wounds we anonymously inflict upon each other," he prayed over the thousands of bowed heads. He then introduced McCarthy, who spoke of the war and the peace movement, and recited some verse by Robert Lowell, including a poem entitled "This is the Country for the Young." He then introduced Leonard Bernstein...