Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly shocking that it took only three minutes for Saints' forward Paul DiFrancesco to inflict harm with a one-timer from just inside the right face-off circle. Although it was only the first tally of the game for St. Lawrence, by the look of Harvard's play, it certainly didn't figure to be the last...
...repellant that street gangs indoctrinate recruits with severe beatings, but it is more shocking to learn that the Marine Corps's "few and the proud" draw blood and inflict pain on new members [NATION, Feb. 10]. I am ashamed to think that a U.S. Marine would stoop to such gang mentality. PETER E. WEISS Holyoke, Massachusetts...
...part erotic. "Why did I stay with Woody Allen when so much was wrong?" she asks herself. "How can I explain to my children, when even to me it is incomprehensible and unforgivable?...Wasn't it my own appalling denial of the facts that permitted him to inflict his damage on those I love most...
...threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. For example, the threat to inflict pain can trigger fears more damaging than the immediate sensation of pain. In fact, most people underestimate their capacity to withstand pain. In general, direct physical brutality creates only resentment, hostility, and further defiance...
...very significant trauma when they lost their mother. And the nurturing they were given by the caregivers in the weeks and months after her death was especially important to their development. Therefore, I would expect an expert to say that taking them away now from their grandparents would inflict new harm on them...