Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed the slushy ice surface and the elbow merchants from Ithaca, N.Y., took their toll Friday night. ("It was a very, very brutal game," Thomas said.) But nobody is buying it as the reason for such a convincing defeat, least of all Roth. "Bullshit" was all he had to say about using the Cornell game as a lone excuse...
...into middle-management positions in the $25,000-and-up level. Says Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person. It is literally a period of mental shock. They wonder...
...dying. The fight had no known motive, though the housing patrolman had been out on the town drinking. To shocked New Yorkers, last week's deaths were the latest in an unparalleled month of carnage for the city's cops. The New York City police fatality toll for 1975 is now four-as high as the total...
...will come later. His toughest action is expected to be aimed at profiteers and hoarders, who have interfered with the flow of relief supplies from abroad. An estimated 30,000 people died of starvation after floods destroyed much of last year's rice and jute crops. The death toll could go much higher if this year's crops should also be ruined. Inflation is virtually out of control; rice has more than doubled in price in the past year (from 200 per Ib. to 500). Law-and-order is also a serious problem. Since independence, there have been...
...relationship of Watergate and America's literary decay, Newman remains oblivious to the fact that the distinction between the educated elite and the uneducated masses is an arbitrary one which the social movements of the '60s that affected language sought to eradicate. Social change will invariably take its toll on language; judgement on the way people speak is hollow without reference to the society in which they live...