Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually these grim facts have taken their toll on civilian morale. The latest migration figures were particularly discouraging. During the first eight months of 1975, there was a net increase of 1,510 white Rhodesians; this year, during the same period, there was a net loss...
...Dorian Gray," Conrad said. "The face is still beautiful, but what's gone on inside the body? The kidney punches. Shots to the liver. That stuff, and time, have taken a toll. It just doesn't show on the champion's face...
Such juggling will still leave the pound far below its value of $2.58 in the summer of 1973, before the oil crisis and inflation began taking their toll of economies in industrialized nations. During five years of decline, the pound has lost almost half its buying power. The shrunken pound makes needed imports cost more. This drives up domestic prices, undermining the thrust of the government's economic strategy...
...Radcliffe tennis team travelled down the Mass Turnpike yesterday for its third match of the season, but it was the opponent, Wellesley College, that paid the toll, as the racquetwomen won 4-3 to remain undefeated...
...bottleneck in play on the closing holes finally took its toll on Fitzgibbons' concentration, as he sandwiched a bogey between three doubles to balloon out of contention...