Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting grew, so did the toll in human suffering. International Red Cross officials last week said the civilian death toll alone may be as high as 100,000, although most estimates had been less than half that. In addition, the Red Cross said that "unknown thousands" have become refugees...
...entirely deserted. Furthermore, public schools in the last decade have lost $2 million in property tax revenues because of the conversion of $150 million worth or private property to make room for 23 miles of freeway from Detroit to its suburbs. (Not a single highway entering Detroit has a toll-both...
...came one after the other and, alas, died far more often than is now the case. Historians estimate that year in, year out, about a third or more of all children died in infancy-in typhoid and smallpox epidemics, of diphtheria, dysentery and respiratory ailments. Measles exacted a frightful toll. And, of course, parents were helpless to do much except pray and wait. The medical "treatments" of the day were themselves a major source of sickness and even death: bloodletting, purging and bizarre concoctions...
Less than 24 hours after the Cabinet's angry pronouncements, 30 Israeli jets bombed and strafed Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, leaving at least 100 dead and more than 150 wounded -the heaviest death toll in such raids since February 1973. During attacks on refugee camps near Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon, the hamlet of Kafr Tabnit was razed almost to the ground. Israeli military spokesmen said the targets were terrorist bases, including the headquarters of the Syrian-backed Saiqa guerrillas who are thought to be responsible for a Nov. 21 raid on the Golan Heights in which three Israeli...
...second round, Scott Mead secured Harvard's victory; which was never really in doubt after Weigand found the toll money for the Mass Pike...