Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...examine that cliche. Would the middle class be worse off or better off if all the unemployed magically disappeared? Obviously, much better off: Think of the enormous savings in taxes, the enormous improvement in public services, the enormous benefits from refocused energies now used to ameliorate poverty's abominable toll...
SHORTLY after eleven, Tim decided to call it a night, leaving voice-overs to another time. The past hour or so had been boring to everybody, it seemed, and the frustrations of the day's shooting had taken its toll on the unit's vitality...
Since a big tactical factor in judging the advantages of de-escalation is the U.S. death toll, the Administration ordered a new study of casualty causes. The results have been inconclusive, but if anything, they suggested that most U.S. soldiers are wounded and killed during enemy-initiated actions?and not as a result of their own aggressiveness. Moreover, looking back to the experience of the Panmunjom negotiations in Korea?during which the U.S. command
...incongruities of manner and matter inherent in his jumble of diverse characters, classes and accents. It seems surprising that even the British Empire could have converted such a collection of civilian highbrows, esthetes and scholars to effective military ends. Outside Whitehall, bombs are succeeded by rockets. The London toll of death and damage mounts. Throughout there is a sharp impression that what Powell refers to as "our incurable national levity" is a strong clue to the British survival. It is a specific against too much hope, and thus against bitterness at hope defeated. "Not all the fruits of Victory...
...practical political power that Reagan can wield has been growing. When Reagan took over, the Board of Regents was still dominated by Pat Brown-appointed liberals. Still angry about the '66 campaign defeat, the liberals smacked down several Reagan proposals in early 1967. But natural turnover has taken its toll since then. And this fall, when Republican victories in the state legislature gave Reagan men a few more ex officio seats on the Board of Regents, Reagan finally had a firm majority...