Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both try to protect what is left of their private lives. "One of the most ridiculous aspects of modern society," says Powell, "is the idea that everybody ought to inflict his deepest personal problems on everybody else. I think most people would be happier if they kept more to themselves." Once known as cutups who could down beers with the best of 'em, Jordan and Powell have become homebodies, of necessity. There is little time for cavorting. Though the two are thrown together regularly in the White House and on the tennis courts, they rarely see one another after...
...comes through is something larger than that. There is a general sense of ominous guilt and the specific, fatalistic conviction that an individual can only choose between crippling dependency or terrifying isolation. It is a mea sure of Strindberg's enduring power as a dramatist that he can inflict upon his characters and upon us the abnormal tensions he felt himself. The night closes in like an unrelenting vise until only the nightmare remains...
...findings at Dulles may not be applicable to J.F.K. The impact of sound varies from person to person and place to place. Thus, how much additional discomfort the Concorde will inflict on the airport's distressingly noisy neighborhood can be determined only by on-site testing. The Concorde will not make the area any quieter; but it seems unlikely that the four daily flights the British and French are seeking will perceptibly add to the annoyance already caused by the nearly 1,000 daily landings and takeoffs by subsonic aircraft...
...sure, the House and Senate codes will inflict some inequities on members, depending upon their sources of outside income. Lawyers who draw fees and salaries, for example, cannot convert their income to unrestricted stock holdings; Congressmen connected with corporations can. Indeed, the estimated 22 millionaires in the House will be unaffected, since their income is mainly in inherited wealth, farms, family companies and dividends...
...Uganda, he said during his press conference, "have disgusted the entire civilized world." Two days later Uganda's Idi Amin Dada appeared to retaliate by forbidding some 200 Americans to leave his country and summoning them to a meeting this week. Most Amin watchers expected that he would inflict nothing more drastic than oratory and theatrics on the Americans; he himself issued reassurances. But with the unstable dictator, no one could be sure...