Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, this stream of hostility took its toll. The biting self-confidence of Roth's early prose-seems to have yielded to a tone of resignation and uncertainty...
...whose little Shakespearean company is touring the English provinces. The trouble is, the times are out of joint. World War II's air-raid sirens have a way of going off in the middle of the old boy's soliloquies. Worse, the years have taken their toll. As Sir says, anticipating his 227th performance of King Lear, "No one takes you through it; you are put through it, night after night." Simply stated, the combined pressures of external events and spiritual exhaustion have brought Sir to the edge of near terminal madness...
...present situation in Lebanon. For the first time in its history Israel began a primarily offensive war with the twin hopes of ending Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) killings of its citizens in the Galilee and evicting Syria from Lebanon. The outcome has been 500 Israeli soldiers dead, a toll far higher than any conceivable PLO infliction, and Syria's further entrenchment in Lebanon...
...exhausted Crimson icewomen couldn't hold off the Bruins, as time and checks took their toll...
Freshman sabre duelist Kevin McCarthy won two hard-fought 5-4 bouts in his, first Ivy League contact, said frosh Toll special at Brian Schaffield came out on top twice in his Ivy debut...