Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles northwest of the capital, where 18 attacking planes blasted airfield runways, destroyed two buildings and fired a big aircraft fuel storage tank. At the same time, U.S. aircraft continued their daily raids against North Viet Nam below Hanoi, where they are beginning to run out of targets. The toll: one railroad bridge, three highway bridges, five barges, one coastal lighter, one ferryboat...
...decked ceremonial hall of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's official residence. There, the beaming officials signed a "normalization" treaty and 26 related documents that make the two nations political and diplomatic equals for the first time in modern history. Then, to the sonorous strains of Handel's Toll for the Brave, Sato and the Foreign Ministers toasted one another in French champagne...
Also, the cost of ground war is high. Last week Saigon revised its casualty totals for the bloody battle of Dongxoai. The toll: more than 700 government troops and 150 civilians dead v. an estimated 700 Viet Cong. But Saigon's new military leaders seemed ready and willing to keep up the grim ground battle. To buttress their fighting force, 600 U.S. paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were now holding a vital flank of Route 14, at the same time guarding the airstrip at Phuocvinh, a few miles from Bencat and Dongxoai...
...bothering Hassan was the state of the nation, which was dreadful. Business was stagnant. Half the Moroccan work force was underemployed, and one man in ten had no work at all. In the largest city, Casablanca, student mobs last March battled police and soldiers and ran up a death toll of 200. Foreign reserves were dangerously low, while inflation soared, and crates of furniture clogged the docksides as some 40,000 exasperated foreigners prepared to leave for good. In Parliament, half a dozen political parties bickered endlessly-in two years of debating, the House of Representatives has managed to pass...
...state as nothing short of "dangerous." "It is not an exaggeration to call the stagnating state of millions of American housewives a sickness," she wrote. "The problem-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease...