Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the world, Japan's war lords could watch these events with profound and somber interest. They might or might not reflect that less than six months ago Germany had still owned the strength to inflict cruel setbacks on her foes at the Roer and in the Ardennes forest. They might or might not see that some breaking point had been reached, after which the German catastrophe had gathered volume and speed like an Alpine avalanche. And they might or might not wonder when the breaking point would come for Japan...
...back by counterattacks with infantry and tanks. But U.S. troops took the blow, and shoved forward again. The weather cleared at last, and a huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize and Saint-Vith, the Germans still had a net of secondary roads to move on. Rundstedt seemed in good shape to hold a more easterly defense line, or to go all the way back...
...message, booming out to the enslaved Continent in six languages, General Eisenhower told the men & women of the underground that he was counting on them "as part of the great force now being marshaled to inflict the final defeat on the Germans and bring about the final liberation of your countries...
Lest the hint escape, Pravda chimed in briskly: "The time has arrived to inflict devastating blows in the west as well...
...Stealth. No gun salvos in Moscow record the guerrilla's exploits: they are small victories, pinpricks in a war of titans. But enough pinpricks can bleed, exhaust, inflict painful wounds. Last week, a Soviet communiqué recorded these pinpricks...