Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Saturday's win over Columbia took a severe injury toll in Restic's troops. Most serious are the blows that the defense received...
...Nixon look office, almost 4 million tons of American bombs, rockets and bullets have fallen from the skies of Indochina. By the end of this fiscal year, the Nixon Administration will have spent over $54.5 billion on its war. Two months ago, according to Congressional figures, the Nixon death toll totaled 19,898 Americans 88.949 South Vietnamese and 441.955 "enemy soldiers" (an "enemy soldier," in American parlance, in any Vietnamese person deliberately killed by United States or ARVN troops...
...began to slip. In 1968 Stuart Levin, a graduate of the flossy Four Seasons, took over as president just in time to face more problems. The recession and the trend toward more informal dining, combined with Levin's reluctance to lower the restaurant's standards, took their toll. Last week, almost simultaneously with the opening of a brash new competitor named Jimmy's, Pavilion closed its doors...
Spoken by a cynical patient in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, the statement conveys the fatalism that many people feel about the congeries of diseases called cancer. One out of every four Americans can expect to develop the disease during his lifetime. Despite this toll, there is evidence that the crab's grip is at last being loosened...
...From the time that man used his first primitive weapons against his fellows, the only real objection to war is the costly toll in human life and human misery. If we remove the human element, warfare is no longer morally objectionable and, indeed, could be rather...