Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever the Result." The Chicago convention will surely be bitter, probably protracted. The fight over Roosevelt will inflict deep ugly wounds. Last week party leaders prepared to administer first-aid after the carnage. In a "message of practical politics" 61 prominent Democrats appealed for contributions to the party's $1,500,000 Victory Fund and promised...
...write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious in the kitchen with blood-stains on her dress. Reconstructing the crime, however, Dr. Magrath found that in order to inflict such a wound, the gun must have been jammed against the man's jaw, the gun butt resting on the cellar floor. The whole affair must have taken place in the dark, the murderer probably kneeling on the floor. Such a situation was obviously absurd and when bits of shot were...
...more desirous but also the more difficult to enforce. Their success depends on two things: the willingness of all coaches to teach their players to play the game, not to circumvent the rules whenever possible, and the agreement of all officials to call every infraction of the rules and inflict the penalty at all times. It is a well known fact that a great majority of the coaches teach their mon "inside tricks" and that in a good many cases if players are reasonably certain that a foul will not be discovered, they will commit it. If the present drastic...
From a legal standpoint the telegram, if genuine, was interesting. But to read it to a National Assembly was an old man's folly. By excusing the Thirteenth Alfonso as "timid," loyal old Count de Romanones sealed such doom as Spain's National Assembly could inflict...
...Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life." Bragg...