Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toll is taken on the people who tend the machine. Welfare supervisors and caseworkers typically begin with the purest will to help and end up either leaving or fighting to remember why they enlisted in what ought to be a noble enterprise. Some workers in welfare offices issue checks bigger than their own take-home pay to families like their own. A high turnover among caseworkers is typical...
...High Toll. At week's end both Szczecin and Gdansk appeared quiet. But the bitterness goes very deep, for reasons that are becoming increasingly clear. Eyewitness accounts by Polish visitors in Europe and elsewhere, unverified but similar, indicate that December's death toll, officially placed at under 100, might have been as high...
Congressional concern for consumer protection also led to a far-reaching Occupational Health and Safety Act. The law established federal supervision over working conditions, something hitherto left largely to state regulation (except for coal mines). The law aims to reduce the shocking annual toll of on-the-job accidents: 14,500 workers killed and 2,200,000 injured. As organized labor wanted, the act gives the Secretary of Labor the power to fix safety standards for all factories, farms and construction projects involved in interstate commerce. As businessmen urged, the act leaves enforcement to a three-member commission...
...ALTHOUGH the bombing could not halt the progress of communist ground forces, it did, in the words of official explanation, "make them pay a price." The air war has taken a heavy toll of the civilian infrastructure...
Although fragmentary reports of the riots' extent were still seeping out of Poland, there was strong evidence that the death toll probably exceeded 300 -far more than the figure "in the teens" officially admitted during the protests. The sudden replacement of Gomulka by Gierek after hasty meetings of the Politburo and the Central Committee clearly indicated how worried the party was by the sweeping nature of the revolt, as did Gierek's initial, conciliatory moves. He ended the state of emergency, under which police and the army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast...