Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peabody, who was runner-up in the 1960 gubernatorial race, will stress the issues of corruption in state government and heavy taxation. He also favors building a freeway instead of a toll road extension into Boston...
...motorists massacred one another over the Christmas weekend: 523 Americans died in auto accidents during the 78 hours between 6 p.m. Friday and Christmas midnight; a projection of the injured who might yet die put the total at nearly 700. It was the highest highway toll for the three-day holiday weekend since the "Black Christmas" of 1955, when 609 were killed and 201 of the injured died later. In 1961, as always, the first few hours of the weekend were the deadliest as the gin-glazed celebrators motored unsteadily home from office Christmas parties...
...game, Harvard came back strong in the second half, but the Yardings couldn't cross the fiercely guarded Tiger goal line. The first half 14-0 score remained unchanged. Tom Biladeau put some nice passes in the air, but the cold had begun to take its toll on receivers' hands...
Since then, the war has been fought with increasing bitterness and savagery on both sides-F.L.N. bombings, assassinations and ambushes matched by French air raids, prison camps and executions. The total death toll is already two-thirds larger than that of the U.S. Civil War-an estimated 380,000, of whom 2,000 were European settlers, 18,000 members of the French armed forces, 160,000 F.L.N. guerrillas and 200,000 Moslem civilians...
...revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts. Week's toll: four dead, scores injured. At the height of the disorders, Washington confirmed that two brothers of the slain dictator. Héctor and José Arismendi Trujillo, had been granted U.S. transit visas for use on their way to somewhere else...