Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboring earth. Peasants in the area sat in numb and sleepless terror, watching tumblers half-filled with water for signs of further tremors. At the slightest trembling of the water, they would rush frantically to open ground. At week's end New Delhi heard that the death toll was close...
...those of us sitting on the hill with General Craig, the terrible intensity of the aerial action could only indicate a fierce, personal desire of the Marine pilots to avenge the dreadful toll taken of their comrades on the ground. The pilots seemed unable to wait long enough to finish one strafing run before wheeling their blue-black craft around in the skies for another; they jerked their planes sharply out of bombing dives, made turns so tight that we were sure some of them would crash...
...probable toll would be much like that at Hiroshima (70,000 killed, 70,000 injured). Within 3,000 feet of the burst, 80% died. At 4,500 feet the mortality rate was down to 50%, at 6,500 it was 15%. Some U.S. cities in business hours have 150,000 to 250,000 people in the four-fifths of a square mile covered by the half-mile radius. An air burst over them would kill many more than died at Hiroshima...
...Toll charges will be relatively small: a New York-to-Washington hookup, for example, would cost customers about $30 an hour on an eight-hour-a-day contract...
After five weeks of war in Asia, the toll of correspondents stood at six dead, one missing, one prisoner, three wounded...