Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny Lebanon prospers by being the toll bridge between the West and the Arab world, and it preserves its bit of independence by a masterly balancing of opposites. It has not held a census in 15 years, because a census would probably undo the useful fiction that it is almost exactly half Christian, half Moslem. Its electoral balancing act is unique in all the world. Having long been plagued by bloody religious feuds, Lebanon now sees to it that every man running for the same office is of the same religion...
...center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles long, in some places ploughed a 1,000-yd. swath, splintered more than 700 homes and 40 stores. Ruskin Heights and its shopping center were hard hit. Four died when a supermarket roof collapsed. Total storm toll: 38 dead, 200 injured...
TURNPIKE BOOM is worrying Massachusetts. New 123-mile Massachusetts Turnpike got so much traffic on first Sunday that cars piled up for five miles at toll stations and exits...
...difference,? Mexican, Negro, what have you? The assault on the inward dignity of man, which our society protects, has been made." And this, he said, is an assault on the very idea of America, which "began as a new land of hope . . . For whom does the bell toll? You, the white man, think it tolls for the Negro. I say, the bell tolls for you. It is ringing...
...then the Crimson's lack of depth began to take its toll. With Tom Crump out of action with an injured knee, the squad had taken only three defensemen on the trip, and these three--Jim Herscot, John Baldwin, and Bob Fallon--had to play the entire game...