Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
...enthusiastic were they about it that the election-day toll in the provinces of Valparaíso and Aconcagua added up to one dead, 60 injured. Unfortunately for Don Tinto, this gave his Rightist Opposition the chance it had been looking for to discredit him. With a fine show of martyrdom the Rightists decided their candidates were no longer safe from street riots, announced their complete withdrawal from the Senate & Chamber elections of next March. Though this left the field wide open for President Aguirre's Popular Frontists, it also set up the familiar design for a South American...
While slighter temblors shook the nation, Rumania's chief concern last week was with the effects of last fortnight's violent earthquake shocks. In Bucharest 98 bodies had been taken from the stony ruins of the elegant Carlton apartments. The national toll rose to 357 dead, thousands injured...
...college student Winfield Brown, who paid his 10? pedestrian fee and walked across for the thrill. Approaching was a logging truck and an automobile driven by mild, baldish Leonard Coatsworth, reporter on the Tacoma News-Tribune. Mr. Coatsworth stopped to look at the undulations before he paid his toll. They were no worse than usual...
...bitter cold wave settled over the nation Tuesday night as destructive gales lashed across the Great Lakes region and pounded eastern seaboard states, taking a heavy toll in life and property...