Word: toll
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This is simply not true, and Rockefeller should realize that the shelter program, a contractor's dream, invites exactly the type of misbehavior that Carlino so plainly has exhibited. As Lane said in self-defense (for the counter-attack took its toll), the shelter bill was simply too important to be slammed on a legislator's desk for virtually automatic approval...
...Algeria. At Oran, Europeans machine-gunned a grocery, killing three Moslems; retaliating, Moslems ambushed a car, killing four Europeans. In Bōne, Europeans placed flowers at the spot where a 16-year-old boy had been killed while putting up S.A.O. posters. As the week's toll climbed from 20 to 30 to 40, the authorities advanced the curfew from 9 o'clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa in an Algiers suburb uncovered the secret...
...Their Lives. At first, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the F.L.N. Provisional Government smugly announced that the S.A.O. was not an F.L.N. concern; it was an "affair between Frenchmen." But as the toll of Moslem deaths mounted in gunfights and ratonnades, Benkhedda reversed himself. This month, in an official communique, the F.L.N. declared war on the S.A.O. In Algiers, underground fighters stood guard at Moslem cafes and clubs; "self-defense units" were formed in the Moslem bidonvilles (shanty towns). Fellagha gunmen stopped skirmishing with the French-army patrols to step up attacks on S.A.O. terrorists...
Pietro Annigoni's ruthless brush speaks silently and shockingly of the physical toll a man gives in the presidency. Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural...
...slide on a map, Peru's Health Minister estimated that between 3,500 and 3,800 people had perished in history's fourth worst avalanche.* Only a few of the bodies will ever be recovered. The only way to get a more precise calculation of the death toll will be to take a new census of the area and subtract...