Word: tolls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However, the Australians reported they were taking a toll of 10 Japanese for every man they lost, but their zone of operations was narrowed...
...team's 226 points have been scored by the first five players, showing the lack of good reserves. McCoy wants to develop some reliable substitutes so that the regulars can have more rest and so that he won't be caught short-handed when foul penalties take a large toll of players as in the Exeter game...
...concrete highways and concrete-and-steel bridges made the ferry obsolescent. When the Mid-Hudson Bridge was opened in 1930, the Poughkeepsie ferry, which once had three boats in constant service, hit its fatal snag. By undercutting the bridge toll (25? to 50?), it managed to keep one boat going. Last week, when the bridge toll came down to 35?, the line gave up. On the old Brinckerhoff, lashed to the landing, the fires went dead...
Enemy's Round. The Jap had achieved command of the air by the end of the war's second week. Close to his air bases, he had poured inferior aircraft south to Luzon, and by numbers taken a toll of better U.S. planes. He had also established three Luzon beachheads, apparently with airdromes: at Legaspi, Aparri, Vigan. Then he opened the battle's second phase...
...their prayers. Few ever knew what hit them. Flames licked up over the brown stucco walls as more bombs rained down. They hit Santa Catalina College for girls, the Philippine Treasury Building. Fire swept a half-dozen square blocks. By next morning, first count of the raid's toll showed: 40 dead, 150 wounded. Next day at noon, the Japanese returned, again scored heavily in congested residential districts...