Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two losses are the sole blemishes on the Terriers 14-2 ECAC record. Tonight will be their opportunity to sidetrack Harvard's Beanpot aspirations and inflict the first loss on the Crimson's 14-0 Eastern state...
...Crimson played what was perhaps its best basketball all season, but occasional Harvard defensive lapses in the second half allowed the Bruins to storm back from a 42-39 halftime deficit and inflict on the Crimson a loss that will hurt for some time to come...
...have been, it provided only momentary relief--only until one realized that the man who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people had left office for what seems, in comparison, petty larceny. The men who had constructed the policies he had implemented stayed on, to inflict those policies on still thousands more innocent victims. John Dean was wrong: the cancer was not eating away at the presidency, it was the presidency, and its ravages have yet to be exterminated...
...courses are grim. Israeli and Syrian troops are currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...
...Myra is periodically able to take full command of Myron's body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning...