Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect the earnings and savings of the people from the double toll of high prices and high taxes...
...convention of moviemen in Minneapolis last week, Hollywood Spokesman Eric Johnston said that it is too soon to toll the death of the industry. Weekly admissions run close to 55,000,000, "and that's a third of all the people in the United States." What's more, the number of new drive-in theaters more than offsets the number of houses closing down. The real problem, said Johnston, is not television but taxes. The 20% federal admission tax alone in 1951 amounted to some $250,000,000-or five times the net profits of all U.S. theaters...
...pressure-cooker ring, the heat (104°) took its toll. For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery...
...correspondent worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...Manning takes his only sleep in catnaps; he hardly stays in his cabin long enough to shave. Nor does the commodore completely relax in port. He has never been to Paris because he can't leave his ship that long. This fanatic devotion to duty has taken its toll in Manning's personal life. Twelve years ago he married Florence Isabella Trowbridge Heaton, whom he met on a crossing. They were divorced two years later, shortly after their daughter was born. Explains Manning: "I couldn't serve two masters...