Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight years later, a white policeman trying to arrest a woman for disorderly conduct shot and wounded a Negro G.I. for interfering. Rumors flashed through the ghetto that the soldier was dead, and this time the toll was five dead, 500 injured, $5,000,000 in damage...
...ocean motor bikes at 5:30 a.m. to the U.S. Navy base where he was temporarily stationed for some underwater training, Carpenter met two cars passing on a narrow road, and when he sheered aside to avoid them, bounced into a doral wall just the way the tourists do. Toll: a compound fracture of the left arm that may take surgery for a proper set, a fractured toe on his left foot, and a rapidly ballooning left knee, all of which will keep him well above the water line at least ten weeks...
...week's end the patrolling soldiers were desperately trying to keep the two races apart. No one had an accurate count of the toll, but so far in lagan's strike at least 33 East Indians and Negroes have been killed and more than 2,000 injured. As for Cheddi and his Chicago-born Communist wife Janet, they still clamor for immediate independence from Britain and noisily accuse "American imperialists" of stirring up opposition to their rule...
...game's climax. Rank upon rank of screaming, struggling humanity crashed against the steel until the doors burst open and the mob surged over the crushed bodies in the corridors. Strips of skin clung to the walls, and in places the corpses were six deep. The death toll at the gates alone was 200. Outside, the rioting crowd rolled on through the streets, smashing windows and burning vehicles, forcing police reinforcements to fire into their midst. Small parties of ghouls scurried around, looting the dead...
...through the night, ambulance sirens wailed through Lima. By morning the toll stood at 293 dead, nearly 500 injured. President Fernando Belande Terry decreed a week of national mourning and suspended constitutional rights for 30 days to prevent leftist agitators from taking advantage of the situation...