Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time come to order Canada...
...scale assault" aimed at the Cologne plain east of Geilenkirchen (twelve miles north of Aachen). To dispose his forces to meet it, the enemy shifted his dwindling reserves under the protection of swarms of mobile antiaircraft guns. Still Allied airmen in complete command of the air took a heavy toll of men & material...
...from Britain's war wounds as any other kind of blood. For Britain's peers understand one prerequisite for those who would rule a democratic empire-they know how to die for it. Of all England's foreign wars, World War I took the heaviest toll of blue blood. World War II's toll may be even heavier...
...Last week the Pope was described in a letter from Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York to his flock: "I . . . found him aged, thin and saddened since I had last seen him. Fifteen months of anxiety and pain have taken a heavy toll. No robust physical stature nor strong broad shoulders has the Pope to bear the sorrows of the world, but the Christlike figure, Christlike shoulders and above all a Christlike sanctity and spirit . . . he reminds me of the wounded Christ...
Hours later rescuers still dug for the dead and trapped in the wreckage of the restaurant. The toll was high...