Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, in thousands of halls, in darkened rooms over Main Street drugstores, men meet, exchange mystic signs and complicated handgrips. New members are sent upon symbolic journeys through wildernesses of sawhorses and overturned chairs. Old members toll bells and simulate the groans of lost souls, solemnly chant and portentously listen as the initiate promises to keep the secrets of the order or have his throat cut and his tongue pulled out by the roots...
After that Judy saw the Russian six times. He bought her dinners, took hef rowing in Central Park. On Christmas she gave him some Toll House cookies. Said Archie: "Now tell the jury how he impressed your female heart and mind . . ." Judy had found him charming, sensitive. She added, with a quaver, "I thought I was in love with...
...east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization of a $100,000,000 bond issue, the legislators will also consider a provision for constructing a 90 mile toll turnpike across the state...
Very few objections can be raised to the project. Because it would be a toll highway, the 60 to 75 million dollar cost would be assumed by the users. And inasmuch as most of the cross-state travelers will come from other states, the pike would cost Bay Staters almost nothing. When the tolls have paid off the bonds, the road would become completely free...
Like the rest of the highway chain, the Massachusetts turnpike would be only a supplement to and not a replacement for the old road network. Using the speedway would be optional; no one traveling from one Massachusetts point to another would be obliged to pay the toll...