Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fallen power lines, collapsed bridges and roads blocked by landslides, many towns in the mountainous north and northwest were stranded last week without food or medical supplies. Starvation and disease were expected to add to the death toll before roads could be cleared to bring...
...heighten Rosovsky's role in formulating educational change within the University. Instead of playing an active role in Rosovsky's task force review of undergraduate education, Bok may have to take a backseat in planning the future of Harvard-Radcliffe. Perhaps the most important consequence, however, is the toll all that administrative work will take on Bok's perceived role as the leader of the University. Possibly because he had just finished constructing that wall to cushion him from bureaucratic hassles, he has never had the time to establish himself as the forceful or recognizable educational figure within the University...
...Lebanese civil war, it was the worst week ever. The bitter fighting between Christian and Moslem communities, which for nine months had been largely confined to Beirut and a few scattered towns and villages, last week spread with explosive intensity; the death toll since April was pushed to more than 9,000. "A state of total anarchy," was the way a horrified Beirut television announcer described the killings, kidnapings, looting, arson and destruction. The disastrous round of fighting triggered two abortive cease-fire efforts in 24 hours, as well as the proffered resignation-not accepted-of Premier Rashid Karami...
...Mobutu, who are worried that an outright M.P.L.A. victory would give the Soviet Union too much influence in Angola and the rest of central Africa. A compromise would also, of course, spare the country more violence and bloodshed. At week's end some estimates of the death toll in the civil war had risen to as high as 100,000-a devastatingly large figure for a country with only 5.5 million people...
...from work in armored limousines. Fighting also swept through the city's financial district, and got so close to Beirut Airport that the facility closed down for the first time in the civil war. By week's end the recent fighting brought the war's toll to over 9,000 dead...