Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the degrees of guilt in the scandal, Watergate is, of course, a tragedy for the men involved and for their families. As a friend of Jo Haldeman explained: "There is no way to measure the toll. She is about as strong as he is. She'll be all right. But it's a problem for the kids. There's no way around it at school." The Haldemans have four children. Jeanne Ehrlichman, a very private woman, said firmly: "I just know my husband is going to be proved innocent." Clutching a childhood Bible, Martha Mitchell attracted a press throng...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...
Still, the river's rising waters took their toll. By week's end the flood had claimed 20 lives, routed 25,000 people from their homes and swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...
...Senate committee headed by Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke has been listening to other proposals, including outright nationalization of the Northeast lines, or nationalization of their rights of way and federal assumption of track maintenance in exchange for a toll charge paid by each railroad. Congress will have the final say, and if it cannot agree on some plan in about three months, the Government's hand may be forced by the federal court that is overseeing the Penn Central's operations in bankruptcy. Federal Judge John Fullam has given the railroad's trustees an ultimatum: devise...
...late model rented car went through a manned toll gate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Someone in the car screamed at the top of his lungs, "I am being kidnapped." The car drove on, but the attendant called the police. Though the troopers had only a poor description of the car, they gave chase and stopped it. As soon as Wes Lockwood saw the troopers, he said, "Thank God you are here." A man in the car, Ted Patrick, apparently falsely identified himself to the police as a clergyman. Wes's father, who was also in the car, showed the troopers...