Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panicked by the sly American trick. At the first notice of potato bugs in their district, they sent for a young local plant pathologist named Cestmir Novacek and ordered him to liquidate the nasty, crawling little capitalists. For five years everything went fine, and the "invasion" took little toll of Horazdovice's potatoes. This year, however, the potato harvest in the Pilsen area was a bust. The fact that it could all be blamed on the weather did not satisfy the Communists. Again the commissars sent for Pathologist Novacek...
With Billy de Wolfe as her guest, Imogene Coca (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) did little better with song and a strained set of sketches. Only in one skit-Motorist Coca trying to get through a toll station without a dime-did she show her talent for getting laughs with the famous whimper...
...cards. Near by, a cathedral toppled over, its steeple bell bouncing into rubble. Army barracks, a sports stadium, police headquarters, a hospital, a prison, and the post office fell like split kindling. The palatial Hotel Baudouin swayed and plunged, then foundered, turning its desk register into a death toll...
...Buddha of Boundless Light. Reports reaching West Bengal last week reported that the palace collapsed, crushing scores of Buddhist monks in a welter of prayer wheels, holy vessels and ornamented battlements. One Red Chinese barracks, teeming with the Panchen Lama's Communist "bodyguards," reportedly fell apart. Estimated death toll: between...
...Mohawk Valley to Buffalo, it passes within 20 miles of 85% of the state's 15 million residents. Spurs to the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey turnpikes, Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania state line and Niagara Falls will add 137 miles and make it the best integrated of all toll roads. The spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry and exit that have plagued other turnpikes (the late Ernie Pyle once wrote: "For what shall it profit a man if he gain two hours in 160 miles and then lose...