Word: infliction
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...decree, suspending Article 14 of Argentina's Constitution (patterned after the U.S. Bill of Rights), gave Acting President Castillo unchallenged power to prohibit meetings, suppress newspapers, order arrests-but not to inflict punishment...
...season last week. Of 135 Japanese planes that swarmed over Szechwan Province, 27 blasted the capital. Chinese huddling stoically in their shelters could tell by the way the earth shook that this raid, like those of the last few weeks, was as heavy punishment as the Japanese could inflict...
...only premise on which a war of successive brilliant withdrawals can be fought with any hope of eventual victory is that the withdrawers should inflict great casualties on the enemy and suffer small ones. In Crete that premise did not obtain...
...armistice, concluded with Nazi Germany last June 25 by Petain in the naive hope that it was between soldiers and was signed in a sense of honor, means nothing to Hitler. As set forth in Mein Kampf, he is attempting to "inflict exactions progressively and by stages" on the prisoners of the armistice, Professor Morize stated...
When Company D awoke one morning last week, night rain had streaked the canvas tents, soaked the company street, filled the water buckets that hung on pine rails before each tent. The men were pleased: whatever winter, mud and the Army might inflict on them that day, they would not have to contend with choking Georgia dust when they paraded their tanks past...