Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Health Organization issued a jubilant report: in 36 countries on six continents diphtheria is now "a vanishing disease, and no longer a public health problem." Reason: spreading use of anti-diphtheria shots. Heaviest toll is now among children about four years...
...glowering silences or muttered retorts. When the oppositionists were fully identified, the bullyboys opened up. Whipping out blackjacks, knives and guns, they attacked in milling fury. Victims were tossed screaming over the guardrails high above exit passageways; hundreds of others were toppled into the arena. Pistols banged away. The toll: at least eight dead, 50 hurt...
...loop, midway between Omaha and Sioux City, and settled in a new bed half a mile to the east. This confronted the civic fathers of Onawa, Iowa (pop. 3,498) and Decatur, Neb. (pop. 808) with an embarrassing problem. After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since the Missouri would probably wander back; if it did not, the engineers "would take the necessary...
Examination proctors twice a year take their toll of undergraduate nerves and patience by often creating as much tension as the blue books they distribute. Since they apparently operate under the theory that students will cheat if they can, some proctors prowl around the examination room like watchdogs, emitting an occasional growl and contributing to an already unpleasant atmosphere...
...open professionalism in our midst, let's not hold on to any delusions about it. Let's not think that it will fail to dye the whole fabric of athletics at the university. Let's not think either that it will fail to take its toll on the academic health of the school. Let's not believe that Jim Tatum . . . will play the game any more for the old college try here than he did at Maryland. He will play to win and win alone...