Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inferno was squealing, kicking Beaugay, the fleetest two-year-old filly of the 1945 season. Somebody held her fast. Stable boys led out other terrified thoroughbreds; agonized screams came from horses still in the blaze. In 20 minutes, the worst fire in horse-racing history was over. The toll: 23 horses valued at about $400,000. Only six were saved...
...heavy toll was largely caused by the horse's civilized stupidity. Five of the Arden racers which had been led to safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
Said Hoover in his report on India: "Most districts are on the edge of a precipice. It is impossible to hazard what the death toll might...
Last week, despite the confusion and collisions, the false starts and the belated ones, the U.S. was sprinting to make amends (see below). But the early failures had already taken their toll; no matter what the U.S. did within the next two months, world famine would continue for at least a year...