Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis Leakey did not take kindly to the acclaim that began pouring down on Richard. For years Louis had dominated African anthropology, at least in part by intimidating his rivals. But the elder Leakey's rugged existence was beginning to exact its toll. Never one to take care of himself, he had been suffering for years from the cumulative effects of tropical diseases, concussions, bee stings and snakebites. He had also seen his son assume the directorship of the National Museums of Kenya. Now the conflict between the two became so intense that it threatened to split the family. Mary...
...worst since the discovery of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, when 181 people were hospitalized and 29 died. Only the prompt decision of the Vermont doctors-made before they had the results from Atlanta-to administer erythromycin kept the toll from climbing higher; the antibiotic is the only one known so far to be effective against Legionnaires' disease...
...schizophrenia does take its toll in some ways, she says. Alexandra doesn't always feel either of her two worlds; "I'm very conscious that I don't fit into any group: I have a lot of friends, but not in any one area," she says. And occasionally she finds Harvard life very frustrating. "I have to hold myself back here," she says, "I want to get going with my career." But Alexandra considers herself an actress, above all, and prides herself on being able to play various roles with genuine feeling. She describes herself as "moody": sometimes, she says...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...rain took its toll on the remaining three Crimson linksters, as Spence Fitzgibbons went around in 85, Jim Dales piled up an 88, and George Arnold, who was missing his umbrella, took a soggy...