Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy death toll of 398; they suffered at least eight killed, 'including five Americans...
That the magazine made its first deadline at all, let alone impressively, is a phenomenon in itself. Essence's full-time staff numbers only 26 (four of whom, including Kerr, are white). The first issue took its toll of editors in chief, losing both Bernadette Carey (of Vogue) and Ruth Ross (ex-Newsweek) to shakedown strife. "It was a good beginning," says Ida Lewis, 34, the pert, formerly Paris-based freelance writer just signed on as the new editor in chief, "but I want to emphasize the positive aspects of black femininity. The black woman already knows what...
When Casals finally came on, he was helped up to the podium. He began to conduct sitting down. But the music soon brought him to his feet to urge his fellow musicians forward. Time may have taken its physical toll of Casals the cellist. But as the evening showed, his conducting seems to improve with age. He had strong control, and he got exactly what he wanted from both music and orchestra. When he took up his baton the years vanished...
...blasts, and severed limbs flew through the air. Six-ft. steel-and-concrete slabs, used to cover the subway tunnels under construction below street level, were tossed about like giant dominoes, crushing some of the victims. Fire quickly spread through 30 buildings along the street. The final toll: 73 dead, 281 injured...
...that country's triumph at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. The pavilion is dominated by two spiraling pieces of modern glass sculpture. Among the imposing welded sculpture and cast-glass figures of the main pavilion, there is an immense iron bell, which visitors are invited to toll. In Expoland (the amusement area), the Czechs are showing an improved version of Laterna Magika, the combination of multi-projector movie wall and live acting that was the hit of Montreal's Expo...