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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official death toll stands at 1,264. The Ball government reports 64 people injured and numbers 75,000 as refugees. The number of missing has not been determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bali Volcano Eruption Kills 1200 | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

...strike of 188,000 miners in the nationalized coal fields of northern France, who were demanding wage scales on a par with workers in private industry. Rumors circulated that S.A.O. members, disguised as cops, would attack the strikers to provoke them to violence against the government, but the only toll of the strike so far was economic. Thousands of steel and natural gas workers went out on a sympathy strike, and a 24-hour rail walkout cre.ated a transportation tie-up all over France. Into Paris drove a 342-car convoy of some 2,000 Lorraine ironworkers chanting: "Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Give Us Some Sous | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...hearing concerned eight acres of the Charles River which the Turnpike Authority wants to fill in to use as a roadbed for its proposed toll road extension into Boston...

Author: By Anthony H. Scholl, | Title: MDC, Turnpike Authority Disagree Over Filling Eight Acres of Charles | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

...Tolls & Tabulations. If a man had a bridge on his land, he charged neighbors and strangers a toll to cross it.* When a woman died, the church bell tolled six times. A man was worth nine. Then, after a pause, the exact age of the late member of the congregation was tintintabulated for all to note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popular Science, 1805 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Satyr & Dwarf. Then to ensure that wedding bells will not toll, the judge imports a snake-eyed satyr named Harry Diadem. Harry is 25 and has scored, as he puts it, with 603 different women since puberty. He is confident that Laurie Mae will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End As a Fairy Tale | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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