Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops from the Lenadoon hot point. The heaviest action took place in Belfast's Lower Falls area, where troops and gunmen exchanged 3,000 shots and the I.R.A. used rocket launchers for the first time. The toll: 24 dead (including six soldiers) since the fighting began-or 436 since Ulster's siege of unrest began three years...
Earlier Sunday, while the cease-fire was still in effect, police found the bodies of four men who apparently had been executed. The deaths raised the toll for Northern Ireland's three years of bloodshed...
...savage floodwaters summoned by tropical storm Agnes slowly subsided, the toll in lives, refugees and property damage made it clear that the storm almost certainly added up to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. At least 109 bodies had been found and rescue workers expected to find more in the rushing waters and mud-caked debris of southeast Florida and a five-state area (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania) of the East. At least 387,700 persons were evacuated in Agnes' corkscrew wake. Property damage was put at upwards of $1.4 billion...
...violence through TV and film. But one fact is indisputable-most homicides involve guns. And guns are shockingly easy and cheap for any murder-minded malcontent to buy. Since the turn of the century, more than 800,000 Americans have been killed by privately owned guns. The yearly toll is now 21,000, which includes 8,000 homicides by handguns as well as suicides and gun accidents. Certainly if the U.S. adopted a strict and sensible federal gun-control law, homicides would decline substantially...
...death of American children, teen-agers and adults under 25, and the third highest cause of death among people aged 25 to 44. Since the auto was invented, it has killed 1,800,000 Americans, more than in all the nation's wars. Last year's toll was 55,000. At present rates, one out of 40 living Americans will some day be killed...