Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northern parts; and though by week's end a few droplets had sprinkled on Britain, France and Germany-Denmark by contrast enjoyed a heaven-sent downpour-it seemed likely that the damage done would be felt for months. A variety of crops were ruined, and the death toll from heat prostration ran into the hundreds...
...bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...
...toll exacted in Sexual Perversity in Chicago is that of a torpedoed love affair. It might be called "Four's a Crowd...
...asked for the names of other writers he had met at leftist meetings a decade earlier. As a result of his refusal to inform on others he was found guilty of contempt of Congress. His conviction was later overturned on appeal, but the experience nonetheless took its psychic toll...
This is not a baseless worry. Foreign companies have expanded enormously in recent years, partly by importing, and in some cases improving upon American technology. Meanwhile, recession and the inflation of the past decade have taken their toll in the U.S. research and development community. Many American companies have cut back on investment into potentially risky new products. Federal funding for research has also been in increasingly short supply. The U.S. investment in R. and D. actually decreased during the early 1970s, and still remains too sparse for the scientific community's satisfaction. For example, funds for space projects...