Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week's end a Red shore battery scored a hit on the British cruiser Jamaica. The toll: six dead, three wounded. They were the first British naval casualties of the Korean...
...cymbal rhimes are bell well toll sold & the like...
...amount of human effort, by better machines and organization, is a sound economic and social objective, said Wilson. Both G.M. and the U.A.W., he added, accept the principle. Another cardinal principle of free enterprise is to earn good profits by efficiency and progress, and not by "just collecting a toll . . . Some [people], reluctant to face competition, seem to use free enterprise talk as a cloak for a little extra selfishness...
Parsons' pace was shattering records at every 25-mile mark; it was also taking its toll of cars and drivers. Physical and mechanical fatigue, burned-out bearings, fouled-up fuel lines and twisted supercharger shafts were bringing an end to expensive dreams...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...