Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deceptively amiable Sears has been far from an unqualified success. His early strategy-to inflict defeats in the first few primaries and knock Ford out of the race by the end of March-flopped. When Ford won in New Hampshire, Florida and Illinois, Reagan had neither the resources nor the time to gear up for the primaries in delegate-rich New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Most of these delegates went to Ford virtually by default, as did Ohio...
Next to murder, torture is the most egregious violation of personal rights one human being can inflict on another. Sadly, the practice is almost as old as history. During the Middle Ages, suspected heretics were racked, scourged and burned by representatives of the Inquisition in order to make them recant, while in this century Hitler's concentration camps and Stalin's Gulag Archipelago institutionalized torture and brutality on a scale hitherto unknown. The 1948 United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich...
...scientists and administrators were involved in the decision to construct the special containment facility that the federal government stipulates for this kind of research. But now because some scientists at Harvard and other institutions are wary of the potential dangers of this biohazard, particularly the dangers it could inflict on Cambridge, the final decision about the construction of the facility was reserved for the Cambridge City Council. After several weeks of debate, the council voted last week to place a three-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research while a special review board attempts to assess the dangers involved...
June 17. Colonial forces driven from Breed's hill, near Boston's Bunker hill, but inflict casualties of 1,150. Aug. 23. George III proclaims Americans have "proceeded to open and avowed Rebellion...
...debt and taxis; while the former is easy to get into, the latter is harder to get out of. Task forces are at work trying to cure the city of its financial problems, but very little has ever been done to ease the torments that cabs and their drivers inflict upon a helpless public...