Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Army and Navy fell in defeat at the hands of the tennis squad during the Spring recess. Consistent play by the bottom half of the singles division enabled the team to inflict a 7 to 2 defeat on the Cadets and an 8 to 1 licking on the Middies...
...benefits anticipated or hoped for from the strike must be sufficiently great to compensate for the evils which it is likely to produce. . . . They may not inflict financial harm on those who own the shop or factory-and still less, on the great body of their fellow citizens-to an extent far out of proportion to the advantages they have set as their goal, even though their demands are just...
...shiny trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn't have picked a story of at least some significance...
Over the years, most of the Hawthorne irony has worn thin; the Hawthorne moralizing and allegorizing now have the force of a Sunday school sermon; the famed Hawthorne style, once so eloquent and orotund, now seems merely archaic and rhetorical ("My father, wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?"). But the dark Hawthorne themes of sin and retribution are still absorbing, and more absorbing yet is the mystery of the obsessed, lonely New Englander turning them over & over in his mind...
...second, there is that little group of shrewd men in high places who read with tongue-in-cheek and move no muscle of their faces as they inflict the cynicism of their own interests upon the policies of the nation; to influence such men without joining them requires less time but far greater skill and unyielding affection for the welfare of the multitude...