Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the emotional strain of waiting three games and 27 hours to play its first tournament game took its toll on Harvard early in the first period, but the Crimson then found its rhythm...
...problem is that these nerve cells have had to work a lot harder to get the muscles moving -- like an eight-cylinder car running on four cylinders -- and after 30 or 40 years, that can take its toll. "Everything has a finite life-span, from a car engine to the human heart," says Dr. Lauro Halstead, director of the postpolio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a polio survivor. "A motor neuron is no different. Neurons that normally drive 20 muscle cells in the polio patient may now have to supply up to 2,000 muscle cells. Basically, this...
...struggled gamely through White House dinners and the endless health-care meetings, "but I'm not sure anything is happening," an official admitted. "She's not running them. She's not talking, and she just sort of sits there." Friends privately acknowledged that the attacks were taking a toll. "She is too proud to call for support," said Senator Jay Rockefeller, who has worked at her side on health care for the past year. "And you will not catch a muscle of her jaw moving, but if I were her I would be seething over Whitewater." Hillary is careful...
...first match, the effects of twelvematches seemed to finally take their toll, as hestruggled in a close...
...fallout in Los Angeles so severe and prolonged compared with San Francisco's experience in 1989? Experts give several reasons. Despite its higher intensity and death toll, the Loma Prieta quake inflicted only 10 aftershocks of 3.5 or greater magnitude, compared with more than 150 in L.A. But the main cause is probably L.A.'s "layered" collective trauma. "Previous traumatic experiences have not yet worked themselves out," says psychologist Michael Gellert. "This makes three catastrophes in a year and a half: the riots and their atmosphere of tension perpetuated by the trials, then the fire storms just a couple...