Word: inflicting
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...nuclear weapons" is not affected by the law. It is misleading to describe Question 2 as an attack on freedom of thought or basic research. It will prevent people from developing ever better ways to destroy humanity. But this is similar to outlawing research on better ways to inflict human torture. Both are prohibitions to be proud...
Before the Phoenix audience, Reagan, himself a lifelong NRA member, declared that "those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun-control laws." Then he added, referring to his own 1981 shooting: "I happen to know this from personal experience." Earlier in the day, Reagan visited a gathering of some 300 elderly volunteer sheriffs posse members, where he took credit for reducing inflation, fighting crime and saving the Social Security system...
...spurred, it was said, by the deaths of two Israeli officers, which occurred when the jeep in which they were traveling ran over a land mine--in South Lebanon. The Palestinian retaliatory shelling had been intentionally directed into agricultural fields in afterwork hours. The Palestinian deliberate decision not to inflict casualties, and their clear desire to uphold the spirit of the ceasefire, was not lost on the Hebrew press of Israel, which began to refer to this incident as the "diplomatic" shelling...
Pancake shows us the sufferings of his characters unflinchingly: the stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills...
This year's production. Of Mines and Men, is as sharp as any Cleverly written and performed, it retains the best parts of Pudding shows past--the quick action, smooth choreography and blunt but nonetheless--their tendency to dissolve midway through to inflict unduly tedious second acts upon audiences who stick around only for the theatrical's famed kick-line finale. And it continue to provide just enough of the Harvard and Pudding in-jokes that Pudding goes relish. This year, for instance, there is a musical reference to Chem 20 and narcissistic puns like: "oh, Gustave...