Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official count stood: 360 dead, 1,815 injured. Floating bits of human bodies dotted the harbor; the real toll may never be known. At least 50,000 were homeless. Insurance claims were $150,000,000, kept climbing...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...
...Sevastopol the Red meat grinder continued to chop up the remnants of the Crimean garrison. At sea, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky's fleet waited for and attacked Axis ships as they tried to slip out for a desperate dash to Rumania, (last week's toll: 18 large vessels...
...Empire's battle toll was 667,159 in the first four years of war. Englishmen, whom the world has sometimes accused of allowing colonials to fight their battles, took pride in the fact that well over half of them (387,996) were men from the United Kingdom. Yet the strange fact (announced by Philip J. Noel-Baker, for the Ministry of War Transport) was that in the same period 588,742 Britons had become highway victims...
...next day was .different. A similar U.S. air fleet attacked Brunswick, Mün-ster and four smaller towns, and this time the Luftwaffe came up in force and fought. Toll for the attackers was 27 bombers and six fighters, but 61 Nazi planes were shot down. And at week's end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the doomed Nazi capital...