Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jake must decide how to comfort and save his people, both physically and spiritually, as he listens to the town bell toll death by the hour...
After intermission the Quartet turned to a sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
After the completion of her reading, Tan was quick to emphasize that writing smut does not necessarily take a toll on one's personal life. Rather, some smut writers are just "recluses with huge imaginations...
...those who choose to play its roulette wheel, baby-making technology is both heart-wrenching and expensive (as much as $18,000 for a procedure). It involves sophisticated drugs that you must inject into yourself daily and whose long-term toll may be yet unknown. But the possible return? A miracle...
...many cases make an epidemic? Survivors of the great polio plagues of the 1940s and '50s will never believe that in the U.S. the average toll in those years was "only" 1 victim out of every 5,000 people. Was that really all it took to scare the nation out of its wits, sending families scurrying in all directions--to the mountains, to the desert, to Europe--in vain hope of sanctuary...