Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought to the Pentagon the essence of large-scale management, the faith and methods of Detroit. To the Pentagon bureaucracy, ignorant of Detroit and instinctively hostile to its methods of command, much of the Wilson approach was new and surprising. For example: where many Washington executives like to inflict upon their subordinates the unsettling experience of hearing the boss's voice come out of empty air, one of Wilson's first acts was to order the "squawk box" moved out of his office so that he could do business face to face...
...Communism; of that I am convinced. But they will never do it unless the fears and weaknesses of the Communist regime are exposed, and this can only be done by a military defeat, not by a political defeat. Our only chance of escaping a third world war is to inflict such a defeat in one of the little wars, perhaps this...
...satire, Hecht's libretto is commonplace and even oafish; certainly Hazel Flagg uses a maximum of heavy artillery to inflict a minimum of wounds. Once again musicomedy, in the act of satirizing something else, has ended by satirizing itself-by pointing up its own excesses of color, blare, manpower and above all, length. Jule Styne's pounding music suggests a New York that never sleeps, and unconsciously gives the reason why Robert Alton's dances get to be relentlessly, unremittingly lively. If only there were less of everything in Hazel Flagg, it might...
...receivers are installed only in factories, meeting halls, schools and restaurants where viewers can see only what their Red masters want them to see. Both West and East zones are limiting telecasts to a few hours a day. Explained one West German official: "We don't want to inflict on German family life the damage suffered in the U.S. because of unlimited telecasting...
...when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong...