Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penance for bursts of overindulgence. Instead of frowning on high-calorie alcohol, Elmer simply warns against sweet mixes' and high-proof liquor ("for every proof add a calorie"). Those who can't keep count of drinks should pocket a match with every drink, count the toll next morning...
...school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
...somewhat more difficult to build, but the extra cost would come to only $30 million. Canada could finance the whole project if it had to, and there is no impossible problem of engineering or supply. U.S. business in the end would have to pay most of the bill through toll charges, and U.S. shipping might be hurt by discriminatory rates...
...embargo, however, had begun to take its toll. Traders whose godowns were crammed with U.S. goods when the embargo went into effect have no way of replenishing their stocks. Cut off from 25% of their former imports, the colony's businessmen worry about satisfying their demanding Red Chinese customers. If the customers grew angry, their armies could overrun Hong Kong in a few days...
...over the United Kingdom last week, Britons were hacking, aching and dying in an outbreak of influenza. This year's flu bug was not the killer of 1918. It was taking its toll mostly from the aged. Nonetheless, it was keeping Britain's gravediggers, many of whom had flu themselves, busy enough. In six weeks flu deaths in England and Wales rose from...