Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength. Since the Gospels are basically collections of episodes that were set down for inspiration and information, a film that follows them faithfully cannot help jumping from event to event without much narrative flow. However, the movie is also mercifully spared the hype that commercial film makers usually inflict on biographies of Christ, as in Nicholas Ray's 1961 remake of Cecil B. DeMille's silent epic King of Kings and George Stevens' overwrought 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told. In this new film, there is no digression into the sexual enticements of Salome, no subplot...
Pirate starter and winner Candelaria fought off a sore back, a sore shoulder, and pulled rib cage muscles to inflict real pain on the Orioles. Helped by two double plays, he held the Birds, who got the leadoff man on base 4 times, in check for six strong innings...
...fierce battle in the Senate for ratification. The fight will be fierce because SALT'S opponents, who believe the treaty concedes a perilous degree of Soviet superiority, are determined and well organized. They number almost one-quarter of the Senate, and need only one-third to block ratification and inflict a disastrous defeat on Carter's presidency...
...backgrounds of its potential donors, or so Bok seems to argue: "I am not yet persuaded that Harvard should have an obligation to investigate each donor and impose detailed moral standards." Once Harvard has accepted a gift, he protests, it should not renege on its agreement, because this "may inflict pain on relatives..." The pain inflicted on the donor's victims, of course, doesn't count as much: the oppressed rarely endow chairs...
...nuclear industry profits from our addiction, and is pushing nuclear power around the world. They hope to make even more countries dependent on their (expensive) services. But what sort of a government would inflict nuclear power on its citizens? Governments like those in South Korea, South Africa, and the Philippines, which the U.S. is selling nukes to. Governments like Brazil, Pakistan and Argentina would also like to buy into nukes, and a whole host of other undemocratic regims are interested...