Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14--The reported toll of revolutionary war crimes executions soared today to 180. Rebel chieftain Fidel Castro declared they will continue regardless of world opinion...
However, the rugged schedule took its toll in the last five minutes of play, as Providence forwards Gil Dominique and Peter Bergen skated around Crimson defensemen and finished off perfect set-up passes. Harry Pratt had no chance on any of the six Friars goals, and played a good game in the nets with 21 stops...
...hotels, more roads, toll gates and public conveniences of all kinds, it takes more and more workers to tend them. At the turn of the century manufacturing employed nearly 50% of all nonfarm workers. Today, the proportion is only 30%, and employment in the service industries is far more stable than in manufacturing. Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, onetime adviser to President Eisenhower and now chairman of Manufacturers Trust Co.'s finance committee: "The shift from manufacturing to services is comparable to the shift in the American economy in the 19th century from agriculture to manufacturing...
...heavy toll charges Alexander Graham Bell levied for his invention was a minor art form: good letter writers have no telephone. Nor should they have much modesty. Belloc had neither. Instead he had wit and character. A grumpy, opinionated man ("I want to tell the new Pope one or two things. I hope he believes them"), he also had a well-polished ego, solid as a brass in a church floor...
...wind" that had saved Japan from Mongol invasion in 1281. The 1944 corps was Japan's effort to whistle up an equally effective wind. It failed, but bloodily; with an expenditure of 1,228 planes and pilots, the Japanese sank 34 U.S. ships, damaged 288, took a heavy toll of life...