Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pearson had hoped to run under 2:30 after clocking a 2:36 last year. The Mississippian took it out strong, crossing the ten-mile mark at 55:40, 20 seconds ahead of his projected time. But by the 20-mile mark, the heat began to take its toll, as Pearson found himself three minutes off his desired pace. By that point Pearson said he felt "terrible and overheated." He went on to lose seven minutes in the last six miles. "It wouldn't surprise me if 200 people passed me in the last six miles," he said. A cold...
...Bells Toll...
...heat also took its toll on first-year Business School student Bruce Hamilton, who finished in two hours and 55 minutes, far from the 2:37 he had hoped...
Indeed, for the past months most families have had no alternative but to stand behind the Carter Administration, or at least maintain a silence about their worries. But the strain of waiting was clearly taking its toll on the families. Their relatives were still alive, yet the threat of death remained. "It's almost like a grieving situation with parts of it unresolved," said Dorothy Limbert, psychotherapist and mother of State Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into...
...biggest toll was paid by the elderly and the poor who lived too far from their jobs to walk and could not afford cabs. Anna Mack, 53, drove to her job as a cleaning woman in Rockefeller Center and had to pay parking fees of $8.50 a night, equal to about one-fourth of her take-home pay. A quarter of the city's garment workers, most of them non white and poor, could not get to their jobs...