Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already the U.S.S.R., by sacrificing "the civilian sector" of its economy, had passed the U.S. in the quantity and quality of many high-priority weapons. The Russian atomic stockpile, long smaller and less diversified than the U.S.'s, is now growing to the point where Communism can inflict grievous damage. The U.S.S.R. has a force of modern jet bombers with electronic defenses, a fleet of 4OO-plus submarines, even an arsenal of operational medium-range ballistic missiles with which the Communists can now attack targets in Japan, Formosa, and most of Western Europe (but the U.S.S.R.'s intercontinental...
Thanks to those bases and to a superior nuclear arsenal, the U.S. has always before been in a position to inflict what NATO's General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither...
Like many another astute Republican, George Magoffin Humphrey is painfully aware of a mounting Midwest crisis for the G.O.P. Growing Old Guard resentment at Eisenhower Republicans has already cost the Republicans some key statehouses, congressional seats and a Wisconsin Senate seat, may inflict even more wounds in the 1958 congressional elections unless the right wing starts fighting Democrats instead of Ike Republicans. Visiting Chicago last week for what Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had proclaimed as "George Humphrey Day," the ex-Treasury Secretary spoke at a fund-raising banquet in his honor, volunteered a Dutch uncle's advice...
...dozen novels that comprise his resounding theater, Evelyn Waugh has beaten the stylish stuffing out of a fantastic troupe of highly comic puppets. For his latest book, Waugh has retired momentarily to the wings to inflict upon himself the special punishment of the aging entertainer-a hard, self-appraising look in the dressing-room mirror...
...rebellion against Argentina's military government was an open secret, and it was awaited with grim relish by the ardent young officers who fought in last September's revolution to bring down Dictator Juan Peron. They and their leader and hero, Admiral Isaac Rojas, itched to inflict a lesson in hot lead on the endlessly plotting Peronista party chiefs, labor leaders and pro-Perón officers cashiered by the revolutionary government. As luck would have it, when the plot popped this week, hard-boiled Vice President Rojas was in top command of the armed forces while amiable...