Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battles along the front dividing Beirut's Moslem and Christian communities. Hundreds of kidnapings were reported by both sides. At week's end the fighting, which spilled over into the downtown banking and hotel district, had claimed more than 100 lives, bringing the eight-month death toll to more than 4,000. (Lebanon's population is only 3 million. It is as though the U.S. had suffered 250,000 deaths in a civil war.) "We cannot stand any more fighting," said Lebanon's almost despairing Moslem Premier, Rashid Karami. "The country is on the brink...
...raid, a bomb was hurled through the window of London's chic Walton's restaurant, two blocks from Harrods department store in the Knightsbridge district, killing two diners and injuring 20 others. It was the 16th such terrorist attack since August 27, and it brought the toll in the current bombing campaign to eight dead and 187 injured...
...diseases that plague man, one of the most resilient is malaria. As recently as a dozen years ago, health authorities believed they had the disease on the run in South Asia, where throughout history it had taken its greatest toll. Now the World Health Organization admits that its victory bulletins were premature. Malaria has returned to the region−with a vengeance. The total number of victims in South Asia this year is expected to reach 20 million...
...Indonesia, is affected by the outbreak. But malaria has struck hardest at the Indian subcontinent. India, which cut malaria cases from a 1947 high of 75 million to only 125,000 by 1965, expects to record 4 million this year. Pakistan, which then included Bangladesh, had reduced its annual toll from tens of millions to only 9,500 in 1961, estimates 10 million cases in 1975. Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), which once had 2.5 million cases per year, counted only 16 victims in 1963. So far in 1975, however, it has recorded at least 500,000 cases...
...Lowell House bells did not toll yesterday, the first Sunday in at least three years that the bell ringers have failed in their duty...