Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often wreathed in coal-fire smog, there arose, too, the smoke and flames of arson and the swirling white clouds of police tear gas. By week's end, at least 34 blacks had been killed and 150 injured in renewed rioting across the country. After the June toll of 176 dead in Johannesburg's Soweto township, the eruption of violence raised anew the question of whether South Africa can avoid outright racial war. So far, the white centers remain peaceful, but their long-term prospects are not good...
...long commute took a heavy toll in morale, according to the report. Tired fathers, worn out waiting for ferries, showed markedly less interest in home life, children, and sex. They often drank more. Their wives made comments like "He's not interested in our marriage any more" and "He's too tired to do anything but sleep." Senator John Marriott warned the federal Parliament of a "significant" increase in the use of tranquilizers on the eastern shore...
...other epidemics, the greatest mortality has been among the aged and very young. In 1918-19, a far greater proportion of the dead were men and women in their prime, aged 20 to 45. No one knows why. Nor does anyone know the world death toll: after every activity of organized society-even prosecution of the war-had been disrupted, the U.S. counted 548,000 dead. The world total was some 20 million...
Laquidara's failures take their toll on the rest of the cast. Jon Terry as James captures the essence of the resentful, mediocre man in his every movement and expression. As he ambles around the stage, shoulders slightly hunched, you can feel it in his bearing: These people are using me. They are out to humiliate me. And his occasional outbursts of rage create a varied texture in his performance; but these moments, which should be the strongest, are ruined, since Laquidara in confronting him is so unforceful. James's "impotent" tantrums appear overwhelming in contrast...
...police force has collapsed as fighting has intensified, and communications are increasingly difficult. But Jaber doggedly continues his daily body count, which has become the only faintly authoritative estimate of the mounting toll of an unceasing war. Jaber figures that 32,000 have been killed so far; for tiny Lebanon, that is the equivalent of 2.2 million dead in an American civil war. He is worried, however, that his figure may be on the low side. As many as 6,000 more people may be missing, their bodies never found, much less counted...