Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snub the Children's or the Holocaust museum? The carriers will cross the narrow bridges over the Potomac not once but three times in two days. On Thursday the group moves through the red-hot center of the city at 4:09 p.m., the start of rush hour, to inflict maximum harm...
...world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate, to be held back, as in the past, through force. To turn a blind eye, however, to the misery that the state of Israel has inflicted, and has continued to inflict, on the Palestinian population is to ignore the real cause of terrorism...
...intend to do communism right this time. They plan to reconstruct and revive the monster of the Soviet Union as a communist state. They would reimpose price controls and central economic planning, renationalize key industries and, probably, turn back toward authoritarian rule. If they pull it off, they would inflict immense damage on Russia and its relations with the rest of the world...
...couldn't stop extolling her virtues to his wife. (Wyatt denies any romantic involvement with Clinton.) Hillary would typically say nothing then. But later there would be arguments, shouting matches, a thrown shoe or two. Both Bill and Hillary had volatile tempers, which they didn't hesitate to inflict on each other. To longtime observers, it was an essential dynamic of their relationship, and the fights were often followed by loving reconciliations. But privately, Hillary expressed pain and dismay. She sought out the husband of one close friend, trying to understand why Bill would be so unfaithful. Did he cheat...
Dirty Soccer was all-out war. Of course, a fourth-grader couldn't inflict the sort of damage that is within the capabilities of the 275-lb. hulks who go against each other in Ultimate Fighting, but it was not for lack of trying...