Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine tough games, including four consecutive painful losses, have taken their toll on Ramer and his teammates, but The Game on Saturday gives the Currier House resident one more chance to lead his team to victory...
...what was I doing there? Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that a year of being here has taken a certain toll on my attitude. All these months of exposure have infected me with an acute case of resume-itis: the knowledge that absolutely everyone has done more and better things than I have. Example: if I had an internship last summer with a member of congress in Washington, I can rest assured that I will meet at least two classmates who worked for a senator while commuting to New York to learn investment banking, working for the Peace Corps...
...preaching it, however, has always taken its toll, especially these days. "There have been times . . . I've come down from the platform absolutely exhausted," he says. "I feel like I've been wrestling with the devil, who has been doing everything in his power to keep those people from getting a clear message of the Gospel." At the moment he gives the invitation, he explains, "some sort of physical energy goes out of me and I feel terribly weak. I'm depleted." After a crusade he returns to relax with his wife Ruth in the rambling log home that...
...peace anytime soon. Despite the example of Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East and blacks and whites in South Africa, the 1.5 million inhabitants of Ulster seem unable to bury the hatchet unless it is in one another. Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London, "are not remotely interested in the Irish. When...
...Wednesday night, it has become obvious that California builds foolishly but evacuates well. The toll in buildings destroyed or damaged is approaching 700. The projected cost: at least $550 million. The numbers suggest that the state has not learned all the lessons of its previous great fire, in Oakland in 1991. After that terrible conflagration destroyed nearly 3,000 homes, state legislation was passed forbidding construction in high-risk zones with certain flammable materials, such as wooden shingles, and requiring a 35-ft. brush- free perimeter around each structure. But enforcement was left to local authorities...