Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel a desire to speak words of good will to you, as chief of the Italian nation, across what seems to be a swiftly widening gulf. . . . We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must...
...fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients the ability of the R. A. F. to inflict devastating punishment on German daylight bomb ers and to upset German preparations for invasion across the Channel...
...painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked, has man to inflict such horrible agony on fellow beings...
...Janeiro, was to be the base of Britain's preliminary delaying action. Now, it is almost completely surrounded by Japanese land and naval positions. The British last summer revised their plans to resist there. Most of their revised plans at Hong Kong called for resistance only to inflict as much damage and save as much face as possible...
...British War Office made the best of it by declaring that its purpose in defending Somaliland at all was "to inflict the maximum losses on the enemy until withdrawal became inevitable. ... All guns except two . . . have been embarked. A great part of the materiel, stores and equipment has also been evacuated and the remainder destroyed. Our wounded have been safely brought away. . . . Enemy losses, particularly among the Blackshirt units, have been heavy and out of all proportion...