Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, in Louisiana you are at least forewarned and can prepare. In Cambridge, though, everyone not used to the city's foibles, and thus not aware that snow-removal equipment need not imply snow removal, is taken completely by surprise. The toll in ruined footwear, drenched feet, and stuffed-up noses is incalculable...
...guard as a result of New Year's Eve merrymaking and hoped to make a quick haul of arms and ammunition. But the sentries were on the alert, and the raiders soon found themselves caught in a one-sided fire fight. Outgunned, they fled into the night. Death toll, according to the government: 33 attackers, 7 defenders...
...huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots & pans, and here & there a corpse. The toll was: 20 killed, 400 injured, 4,000 homeless...
...women, nine children. Three Army families, bound home from Alaska, were completely wiped out. Of the 39 passengers and crewmen on board, 36 were dead; a soldier died later of burns. It was the ninth crash of military aircraft during three weeks in the North Pacific area. The death toll...
...University continued to receive income from the Ferry until 1785, when the first toll bridge was built across the Charles and put the ferry out of the picture. However the income still rolled in--this time from the bridge companies. And in 1786 the capital funds were arranged (with one of her sons as guardian), and the other here...