Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Richard Henry Dana wrote these observations in his diary at Christmastime, 1835, San Francisco Bay was 700 square miles of pristine majesty. In the years since, the building of the "place of great importance" has exacted its toll. Piers, salt ponds, rotting ship hulks, human detritus and a land-hungry urban complex have reduced that water area to 420 square miles. This week forces were mobilizing in San Francisco to end the shrinkage...
...Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police and students spread to several other Brazilian cities. The toll: two dead, 83 injured...
...weather took its toll of men as well as machinery. Drivers at least had steering wheels to hold on to, but mechanics and navigators were flung around the cockpits like rag dolls as their boats stuttered across the stony seas. Aboard Thunderbird V, a 31-ft. inboard, Novice Navigator Rocky Marciano, now 43, wished openly that he had stayed on dry land. "I'd rather fight Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott at the same time," the ex-heavyweight champ told Driver Dick Genth...
Serious Consequences. At the eighth session of the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris last week, Ambassador Averell Harriman delivered a blistering condemnation of the Communists' strikes on Saigon. The assaults, he charged, had been planned by North Vietnamese generals, had so far taken a toll of over 100 civilians killed, and could not have been intended to do military damage. "I want to be sure you understand that this is a situation that could have the most serious consequences for these talks," he told Xuan Thuy and Le Due Tho, Hanoi's negotiators. Harriman got his reply...
...Heavy Toll. After eight days of relative calm, violence flared afresh when a 17-year-old boy, fleeing from police in a town outside Paris, jumped into the Seine and drowned. Enraged, Paris students surged from the Sorbonne and the coffee shops back onto the boulevards, rebuilt barricades and fought an all-night running battle with police. Fighting also erupted in Toulouse, Lyon, St.-Nazaire and the automaking town of Sochaux, where two townspeople were killed. The renewed rioting took a heavy toll of the French economy, stalling the back-to-work movement at a time when 500,000 workers...