Word: inflicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near factories and that if you bomb the factories, you may bomb the people . . . Any great injury you can inflict upon the morale of that nation," he added, "contributes to the victory . . . We are all aware of the awful penalty if we lose the war." As for morality-"war itself is immoral...
...real job, said Luckman, "is not to sell the enterprise system, but to put some enterprise into the selling system . . . [Businessmen] must relearn the science of fighting for orders ... At the very least, we should inflict as much wear & tear on the soles of our shoes as we do on the seats of our pants." To help sales, Luckman thought that business should cut prices where possible, take inventory losses where necessary. Costs would have to be shaved, of course, and the way to do that, he said, was to boost output. There must be "a willingness to expand...
...doctors could not be sure just what had caused Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
...that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have to try him, but only decide what degree of church censure to inflict...