Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasized the danger of divided public opinion and told his audience that "not a single thing must be considered as of more importance than the winning of the war." For every mistake we make now, for every moment we waste, we shall pay the price in blood and toll in months to come, he said...
Coach Earl Brown's charges appeared to have the right formula until the last minute of play, when Lawry's magnificent consecutive string of 12 set shots finally took their toll despite the gallant Crimson defense, which was powerless against the magnificent Sophomore who could tally from any point on the floor...
...half weeks the reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted...
...while the employees of the University have coughed up merely $5600, and the Faculty has subscribed $23,000? Of course, a number of factors must be considered before wrath can be poured too generously upon the students' heads. The Student Council's drive earlier this year has taken a toll on the charity impulse of the student body, and the present campaign is an additional drain on undergraduate pockets which are traditionally empty...
...disclosure--the first official report on the human toll in the Pacific struggle since Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox made public casualties in the Pearl Harbor attack--raised to 5,273 the known number of Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel killed, wounded or missing...