Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still has far more missiles than it needs to smash the Soviet Union, antimissile system or not. Said McNamara: "Our strategic offensive forces have today and will continue to have in the future the capability of absorbing a deliberate first strike and retaliating with sufficient strength to inflict unacceptable damage upon the aggressor or any combination of aggressors...
...placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...
...with every shot in his arsenal, scoring regularly but damaging little. Chuvalo, shooting for more haymakers with each round, withstood the head attack with some body returns of his own. In the 12th and 15th, he landed several solid punches to the challenger's head but could not inflict permanent damage...
...jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth." A craze occurs when an acquired...
...gravity of Britain's economic plight−and then reforming the featherbedding, from chairman to charwoman, that has helped to cause it. Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently warned that "complacent and prosperous manufacturers must get off their backsides," insisted that Britain can no longer tolerate "workers who inflict harm on production with go-slows or sporadic strikes in defiance of their own union." A government report has just accused Jack Dash, the unofficial leader of London's dock workers, of disrupting export-centered work on London's docks. Though the government does not admit so publicly...