Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be directed toward winning that war. ... All officers must be made to understand that in unwarranted criticism of any ally we are simply playing into the hands of the Axis. In the case of an American officer, he will be subject to the direst punishment I can possibly inflict administratively...
...said Adolf Hitler last Oct. 1. By his measure of German gain & loss, the Allies last week still had to inflict a definitive defeat upon the Axis. Rommel was fleeing through Libya and the Allies were at his back in Tunisia, but the Germans were still in North Africa, astride the Mediterranean. The Russians were attacking on ever-widening fronts, but the Germans were still entrenched on those fronts. From Rzhev to Casablanca the Allies had greatly improved their positions, but they still had to translate these positions into victory...
Jackson's gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...
...front south of Moscow, but leads to the Caucasus and its oil. If the Germans cut this railroad, as they did last year when they briefly held Rostov, they will be well on their way to the Caucasus. And, on their way to the railway, they will have to inflict great defeats on the Red Army-the only kind of defeats which can win the summer campaign for Hitler. This week those defeats were still to be inflicted; the Red Army's deep, intricately fortified lines had bent, but they had not crumbled...
Most British opinion flatly accepts it as a fact that Russia can and probably will fight Hitler to a standstill this summer; some think that Russia may even inflict outright defeat on the Nazis. U.S. military opinion is that neither Britain nor the U.S. has any accurate knowledge of Russia's military strength. Stalin, like the tough gambler that he is, plays his cards close to his chest, trusts no man, not even his new partners, with what is in his hand...