Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army moved back fast enough to keep out of serious trouble, slowly enough to inflict vast damage on the Chinese. The Eighth was trading space for enemy blood - all that the U.N. forces could do in Korea. In a valley south of Chorwon, where hundreds of Reds were ambushed, other Reds slipped and staggered in puddles of blood while trying to remove their dead...
...Little Force, Too Little Faith. How would Gandhi have reacted to the Korean situation? He would certainly not have behaved as Nehru has. For Gandhi never turned away from evil or denied its existence. He fought evil in his own way, which was essentially to suffer rather than to inflict suffering, to die by the sword rather than to kill with the sword. Gandhi did not believe in unresisting meekness but in non-violent resistance ("A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier is not particularly nonviolent...
This week, with the precision of a machine, the marines and other divisions of Ridgway's Eighth Army ground their way northward over the mountains of central Korea. Their general's orders were simple: "Use every daylight hour to seek out and destroy the enemy. Inflict maximum casualties and sustain a minimum of your own. Withdraw to strong defensive positions at night. Search every piece ground. Do not push on until you have eliminated every Communist...
...disturbance started outside of Cronin's at 11:10 when two unidentified males attacked a Harvard undergraduate. The men, wearing green sweaters, were beaten off before they could inflict serious damage, but the evening's more violent festivities were underway...
...incidents" came after a flow of recent reports that Bulgaria is building up troop concentrations on its Yugoslav border. At week's end, the Moscow radio accused Tito of "playing Syngman Rhee's role." Whether and when Moscow would try to inflict Syngman Rhee's fate on Tito was the Kremlin's secret...