Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your presentation ... is excellent. It might have pointed up the critical need for flood control. Billions of dollars of property damage, the many lives lost and perennial anxiety are the toll of these recurring floods, and will continue to be ... We know how to control floods, but we spend our time debating methods rather than completing the projects already authorized...
...suddenly as it had struck, the tornado blew itself out across the wreckage of the flying line. Last week the Air Force announced the storm's toll: one $3,500,000 6-36 destroyed, 106 others damaged at Carswell and at the Consolidated Aircraft plant. Estimated loss to U.S. taxpayers: $48 million...
Asylum Sought. There was evidence that the great majority of Colombians were tired of extremist hatemongering. When the government newspaper El Siglo reported that 36 soldiers had been killed in a fight with "bandits" early last week, the moderate Conservative Diario de Colombia printed proof that the real toll was four dead and one missing, and scolded El Siglo for falsifying the news. Said Medellín's Conservative El Colombiano...
...Registrars Office was optimistic, however, about the chances of the class' setting down to the expected size of about 610 men. Last minute draftings, transportation troubles for foreign students, and eleventh-hour changings of minds are all counted on to take their toll of prospective first-year students...
...year-old Bob Shaffer herded a flock of youngsters out of the matinee so calmly that they were hardly jostled. Ambulances and police rescue squads began rolling as soon as the earth stopped shuddering. They found the downtown business section of Bakersfield hardest hit, but counted a remarkably light toll of two dead (from falling roofs) and 32 hurt. Property damage was estimated upwards from $20 million, adding to the $40 million caused by last month's quake and subsequent settling shocks...