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Word: infliction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless, the British faced a serious tactical disadvantage if Germany pushed on to the Channel. Then the R. A. F., with its bombers in Britain, would still have to keep its pursuit planes in France, to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: R. A. F. Against Odds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...gala program included a buffet luncheon, an afternoon celebration in honor of the University, and an evening of entertainment with a Crimson motif. In addition the Dodgem, nerve-wracking midway attraction in which one uses a little car to inflict damage on one's best friends, was opened free of charge all day to all Harvard men through the kindness of a member of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI TROOP TO NEW YORK FROM ALL OVER COUNTRY FOR ANNUAL MEETING | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...were endangered. And last week the Allies' chief spokesman to neutrals, Winston Churchill, phrased Britain's new policy toward Norway and others thus artfully: "When we are asked to take as a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give all the advantage to the aggressor and inflict all the disadvantages upon the defenders of freedom, I recall a saying of the late Lord Balfour: 'This is a singularly ill-contrived world, but not so ill-contrived as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the North | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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