Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This critical chill, and the toll that radio and concerts took from her, began to sap Patrice's morale. She almost began to doubt whether she had picked the right career. Perhaps she should have stayed in Spokane and married her old sweetheart, after all. Teacher Herman's first hard words came back: "Even if you do get anywhere, a career is often a heartbreaking thing . . ." At the age of 21, the prodigy was a veteran who was beginning to feel perilously like a failure...
Registration of male students dropped 10.8 percent, while the number of female students decreased by only 1.3 percent. This decline, however, was less Dr. Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education, said that "The Korean crisis has taken its toll of potential college students," but not quite as great a toll as had been expected in the spring...
...another, the toll among U.S. troops has been held down to 25 deaths among 187 proved cases (there may have been almost 500 cases, all told, with many unidentified). The medics hope that their hunters and trappers will bring in samples of the responsible virus in the rabbits and vermin, and in the mites which infest them. After that, work can begin on developing a protective vaccine. Meanwhile, to front-line troops the season's first bitter cold was almost welcome: it appeared that nighttime freezes were checking the fever's spread...
Costliest Ever. It became the costliest strike in the port's history. By the end of last week, estimates of its toll included $1 billion worth of cargo tied up, financial losses of $40 million, 90% of the 35,000 New York longshoremen off the job, 135 piers idle and 120 ships tied...
Graduation had taken a heavy toll on Coach R. T. Fisher's squad, and, in the opener, he had experimented with 34 men, an enormous total back in those days of the iron...