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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: Ears, Noses & Lips | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...peasouper dumped grit and grime over 22 counties, cocooned 125,000 miles of icy roads, and caused 20,000 automobile breakdowns. The worst fog that London has known since the "Black Death" that took 4,000 lives in 1952's December, it left 136 known dead (the final toll was expected to be much higher) and more than 1,000 gasping patients in hospital beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Beautiful Cough | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...whom the bells toll; they toll for first-class funerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Better Dead | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Grumman in Orbit | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...knew the facts, Moscow seemed eerily normal. Newspapers kept complaining about poor food production, couples on crowded dance floors kept doing their bunny hug and wishing they could find out something about the twist, soldiers with their girls wandered to the Lenin mausoleum to hear the Kremlin bells toll midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The East's Reply | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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