Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period, while Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
...tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...more U.S. war correspondents lost their lives, a third was missing last week. Total toll since the war's start in 1939: dead, twelve; missing, three; wounded, more than 30. The two new deaths came at the end of a fast flight across the Atlantic, when the Yankee Clipper, swooping to a Lisbon landing, crashed into the wide, swift Tagus River estuary...
...pack tactics, picked them up, kept snapping at their keels. By night, a torpedo sank one of the ships; four days later, the other was sunk. Each ship went down in less than 30 minutes, Some lives were saved. This week Washington, announcing the sinkings, also announced the death toll: more than...
...Navy brought the toll up to date with an announcement of losses between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4. U.S.: the twelve-year-old 9,050-ton cruiser Chicago, the destroyer De Haven, three PT boats, 22 planes; Japan: two destroyers, four more probably sunk, 60 planes, plus eight more probables...