Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years have taken their toll, and the strain shows in Cushing's craggy, furrowed face. He suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and cancer. As the longtime spiritual adviser of the Kennedy family, he has been devastated by their tragedies. "It seems that all my troubles have come in the autumn of my life,'' he lamented after Joe Kennedy's death. "I now feel alone and abandoned." Appropriately enough, one of the most moving tributes upon the cardinal's resignation came from Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking on behalf of the family: "For three-quarters...
...otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, last week made it back into the ring, although still barred from professional competition for evading the draft. The former world heavyweight champion won all three of his short exhibition bouts in Atlanta, but three years of battling the courts had obviously taken its toll. The speed of his punches and his Ali-shuffle were somewhat slowed, as was his tongue. Admitted the usually loquacious Clay afterward: "I'm not in shape...
Defusing Protests. There was still the possibility that last-minute Communist attacks would disrupt the balloting, but the campaigning took place in an atmosphere of relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...
...brutal, bizarre attempt to free a man on trial in a Marin County, Calif., courthouse two weeks ago seemed to have no ramifications beyond its bloody toll: the judge, the defendant and two of his would-be liberators dead in the gun battle that thwarted the escape (TIME, August 17). But a routine investigation by the police of the weapons used in the attempt turned up some startling news last week. Three of the guns-a .380-cal. Browning automatic pistol, and two .30-cal. Plainfield carbines-belonged to Angela Davis, 26, the brilliant black former U.C.L.A. assistant philosophy professor...
...their resilient youth, survived to tell about it.) The figure does not include another 129 recorded by the California Highway Patrol as "possibles" based on circumstantial evidence -a pile of clothing left by the rail, a farewell message left behind, an abandoned car. But even the official toll, says Dr. Richard H. Seiden, associate professor of behavioral sciences at Berkeley, qualifies the bridge as "the No. 1 location for death by suicide in the entire Western world"-a fitting distinction for San Francisco, whose suicide rate of 38.2 per 100,000 is about twice that of the state of California...