Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooting was another in the killing blitz that has hit Chicago in the past few weeks. The same weekend seven people were killed by gunshot, and another 41 were wounded in nonfatal shootings. The previous weekend's death toll was 26, marking it as one of the bloodiest periods in the city's history since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...experienced Northeastern unit's superior physical condition took its toll late in the going, when the Huskies stopped Radcliffe's attempts to muster an offense again and again...
...Sierra de Omoa in just 40 hours. Rivers and streams swelled uncontrollably, sending walls of water rolling down into the valleys that produce the country's basic crops of bananas, coffee and beans. Entire towns and villages were washed away in the flashfloods. The government set the death toll at 8,000, and even though other estimates put the figure at 2,000, it was the worst disaster in Honduras' recorded history...
Haig knew that Watergate was taking a terrible physical toll of Nixon. The viral pneumonia was the first signal. Yet Nixon could come back to his peak. Said Haig: "The President performed brilliantly in the Middle East and Russia...
Since Aug. 1 the toll from both left-and right-wing terrorism has averaged one death every 19 hours, and it is rising steadily. That chilling statistic is only one sign of Argentina's turmoil. Late last week two members of one of Argentina's richest families, Juan and Jorge Born, were kidnaped by left-wing guerrillas in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila while a trainload of commuters looked on in horror...