Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their way among crushed, decapitated, legless bodies. When medical help arrived, the water froze in the syringes which held pain-killing drugs. Forty-eight hours later, after the wreckage had been cut through by acetylene torches, after a warehouse at Red Springs was piled high with bodies, the death toll stood at 72, including 52 servicemen, most of them home-bound for Christmas.* The injured: more than...
...R.A.F. night bombers were pleased. When the Eighth takes a heavy toll of German fighters, the R.A.F.'s job is that much easier on the next few nights...
...that sonuvabitch [who] roared past our column in his big staff car, spattering every one of us with mud and water from head to foot." He traced the successive phases of the first Battle of the Marne by the graves of the dead and thought of the "dreadful toll in human life." But he was a stern man and believed in the attack...
...peace, the Queen Mary could accommodate 2,100 paying passengers. In war, she can pack 12-20,000 troops onto her decks, into salons and cabins stripped of luxury and into hold space which no peacetime sybarite ever saw. When German submarines were taking their highest toll, the Queen Mary relied on her speed to dash unescorted through and around their hunting grounds. Some of her 1942 highlights, as revealed by the British last week...
...blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight barracks, damaged other hangars filled with aircraft. Tight-lipped Navy and FBI men began their investigations...