Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the college recounted the fire's toll: first, two who had been killed in jumps, then another who died of a head injury in the hospital. Six more were missing and for them hope soon died. When the count was completed, nine were listed as dead, 25 injured. For Kenyon College it was the most tragic week in its 125-year history...
...week's end the death toll stood...
...down to write a new set of hunting laws for the next session of the state legislature. They would call for mandatory prosecution for manslaughter of any hunter who kills another, stiff penalties for those guilty of careless or drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert] got two pheasants and my boy with one shot...
Novelist William Faulkner complained that literary fame takes a terrible toll. The Kenyan Review had printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring...
...gingerly grasp on the nettle, got stung. He ordered troops, police, and republican security guards to seize mines threatened with damage; but, fearing civil war, he ordered them not to shoot. The government forces were outnumbered by strike mobs and in most places were beaten back with a heavy toll of injuries on both sides. Near St. Etienne, strikers tried to oust government forces from a mine already seized (see cut). At Firminy, where panicky security guards started shooting, against the government's orders, 40 strikers were wounded, two killed...