Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Populaire tidily summed it up, "General de Gaulle in the name of France called for secession of French-speaking Quebec in Canada, tossed England out of Europe, threatened the Common Market with destruction, called the U.S. the principal enemy and suavely knifed Israel." But the broadside effort took its toll. The general's skeins of rationality grew considerably tangled in spots, and he tried to make up for the lack with an extra dosage of sarcasm and heavy humor...
There are serious dangers of violence among the new approaches to Black Power. Still at work are extremists who could shatter every vestige of positive action. Street riots shook Philadelphia when a recent Black Power demonstration abruptly degenerated into a free-for-all with the police. The toll: 22 injured, 57 arrests. In the Oakland-San Francisco area, the Black Panthers, the Black Students Union and other young, activist, Negro organizations have prompted deep concern among both state and local authorities...
Last week was no exception. The State Department once again lamented any civilian casualites in North Viet Nam caused by American bombing, but pointed out that Communist terrorism in the South has taken an infinitely greater toll of civilian lives. Michigan's George Romney once again proposed that all of Southeast Asia be "neutralized" and the war "defused." At an impromptu news conference, the President once again affirmed his belief in the right to dissent, but suggested that the dissenters were only playing into the hands of Red propagandists. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy once again threatened...
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), a protégé of Madame du Barry's who was appointed one of Louis XV's official architects in 1773, designed a spherical county ranger's house, 50 royal toll houses and observation posts, and a workers city for the state-owned saltworks of the Franche-Comté. The French Revolution intervened before any of his projects were built; but his company towns have long since been translated into reality...
...party politics, Buckley probably helped Lindsay win. He siphoned off many conservative Democratic votes that otherwise would have gone to Abe Beame; he scared many liberal Democrats into voting for Lindsay. In the campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were a New Yorker...