Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strait there is too wide to be blocked and the barren island of Perim, whence pirates once took toll, although in British hands, does not control it so much as the nearby ports. Along the Red Sea's African Coast the Italians held Assab, Massaua and got Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden when France surrendered. The nearest British base was Aden across the Gulf...
...have hit where they thought, but, other places have also been bombed, by accident, by bombers in a hurry to unload and start for home. In these bombings according to British admission 336 civilians were killed and 476 seriously wounded, less than a normal month's toll in traffic accidents...
...first decade 1,280 animals were imported. Finding good forage-mosses, lichens, shrubs, summer blueberries, ground willow-the herds eventually increased to over a million. Then they began to dwindle. Wolves, which developed a finicky taste for reindeer tongues, took a heavy toll. Some reindeer wandered off to join the wild caribou. White herders had encroached on the field. One big firm, the Lomen brothers, built slaughterhouses and railway loading platforms, began shipping choice reindeer steaks and reindeer dog food to the States. Discouraged by this high-powered competition, the Eskimos began to lose much of their interest in herding...
Dick Harlow will not be confronted with the major reconstruction job that was his a year ago, but graduation will take an average toll from the Harvard football camp. Fleet Torble Macdonald will no longer grace the Soldiers Field gridiron, and scholar-athlete Tom Healey leaves a gaping hole at right tackle. Mose Hallett, another tackle veteran, graduates, making that position Coach Harlow's number one problem area. In addition to those three men, Jim Devine, Bart Kelley, Ernie Sargeant, George Downing, Bill Coleman, and Frazier Curtis will be among the missing when football season rolls around again...
Their U-boats, one of which was sunk, and motor launches took their toll of the vast [cross-channel] traffic which now began. For four or five days the intense struggle raged. All armored divisions, or what was left of them, together with great masses of German infantry and artillery, hurled themselves on the ever narrowing and contracting appendix within which the British and French Armies fought...