Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew of two and all of the ten passengers aboard Flight...
...first day of Lent last week the bleary-eyed survivors took a look at the toll of casualties. This year's carnival had indeed outdone all others in the past. The score: 28 dead, 4,659 injured...
Warfare Feasible. By the end of the first week, Army experts were able to draw a few conclusions. The men were bearing up well under the North's rigors. Frostbite and colds took their expected toll. But enough soldiers remained in action to prove that warfare on a fairly large scale was feasible in the Arctic...
...Those bells were my joy and sadness. When it was a repique [a joyous peal of bells for processions and fiestas] I felt like running down the stairs to join the crowd in the square and be happy with them. But when I went up with my husband to toll the big one for someone's death, I always wondered who had died and thought of the life to come. And then-think of it; -I had to toll the big bell for my own husband...
Appendicitis is no longer the killer it was a dozen years ago. Since sulfa drugs began to be used to control the complication of peritonitis, the annual toll of U.S. lives lost to appendicitis has been cut from about 17,000 to 5,000. But, says Dr. Frederick Fitzherbert Boyce of New Orleans, the success of the wonder drugs has given both doctors and laymen a false sense of security...