Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Allies. At first the helter-skelter mobs that raged through Ahmedabad's streets were led by Gujarati students. But as the days wore on and the death toll mounted to 18, there emerged a strange coalition of forces, united only by their interest in fishing in troubled waters. Indian Communists, who a few weeks earlier had been denouncing the Gujaratis as "moneybag oppressors" of the Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling...
...Vendetta. Three months ago, during Italy's municipal elections, the Communists staged a big rally in the square. Don Cesare chose this moment to toll his bells in celebration of a three-day vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done...
TURNPIKE TROUBLES have all but knocked out plans for a second super toll road in Ohio. With "disappointing" revenues on seven-month-old turnpike No. 1, running across state, Wall Street Securities Underwriters Blyth & Co. have told Ohio Turnpike Commission that the "time is not propitious" to finance $385 million road running 301 miles northeast-southwest from Conneaut to Cincinnati...
...hardly finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...
...SPEED TURNPIKES will stretch from New York to Chicago by November. New $27 million bridge across Delaware River opened for traffic last week, connecting New Jersey Turnpike with Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, running to Indiana state line. The 160-mile Indiana Turnpike to Chicago will be completed this fall. Toll cost for 825-mile New York to Chicago trip: about...