Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood-thirsty evildoers, of savage murders perpetrated upon the defenseless members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron, by acts of unspeakable savagery. . . . My first duties are to restore order in the country and inflict stern punishment upon those found guilty of the acts of violence. I charge all inhabitants of Palestine to assist...
...loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon the molesting chorus. The only objection to this method is that it will not make for the permanent removal of the feline songsters from Cambridge. Captain Brennan however promised that the molesters would be removed as soon as he can mobilize his cat-trapping squad...
Carl Sandburg, prairie poet, said last week in San Francisco: "I shall not inflict another volume of poetry upon the egg-headed American public until 1932, and maybe not until...
...Those who know me can bear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult upon and to occasion pain to anybody and that it has been my effort to free myself from prejudice. Because of that I frankly confess that I have been greatly shocked as a result of my study and examination of the files of the Dearborn Independent and the pamphlets entitled 'The International...
...Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted. Lord Elgin formally transferred the treasures, thus making Great Britain...