Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOAC'S needs through 1968. Aircraft producers let out a "Buy British" howl, and workers from British Aircraft Corp.'s Weybridge plant marched on Parliament carrying placards: FIRST THE BRAIN DRAIN NOW THE PLANE DRAIN. Aviation Minister Julian Amery said that Guthrie's proposal "would inflict extensive injury on the British aircraft industry...
...called "sport," particularly when it describes the extracurricular torture that goes into the training of the dogs who accompany the stonehearted hunters. Not content with killing for the pleasure of useless killing, often leaving wounded birds and animals to die a lingering death, these "sportsmen" must inflict carefully planned refinements of agony on the luckless pooches who are to be their helpers...
...upholding blue laws, the Supreme Court conceded that they do inflict hardship upon the Orthodox Jewish storekeeper, prohibited by his religion from doing business on Saturday. In an effort to relieve that special hardship, New York City has just passed a new ordinance permitting a merchant to sell "any property" on Sunday if he "keep another day of the week as holy time.' But many a New York City storekeepe has long stayed open on both Saturda] and Sunday, anyway, reluctantly pay ing an occasional $5 fine when a police man checks on his trespasses...
Surprise Proposal. With the deadline crowding in upon him, the President had just two ultimate alternatives, both unpleasant, and both requiring hard-to-get congressional approval: seize the railroads or impose compulsory arbitration. He felt that seizure would inflict a gross injustice upon the railroad companies, which had accepted every Government proposal advanced during the four years of the dispute. But Kennedy was also aware that compulsory arbitration-which would almost certainly result in an affirmation of management's position-would offend organized labor, and he did not want to take the political risks...
...bulk of the witnesses were little worried by lost lubrication; a recent survey by the Research Institute of America showed that 61% of U.S. executives feel that some rule-tightening would be desirable. What bothered businessmen most was all the bookkeeping that the IRS proposed to inflict on them. Predicted Accountant Jacquin D. Bierman...