Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final toll may not be known for weeks-the tragedy would surpass the worst previous dam disaster on record, the U.S.'s Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889, which claimed 2,209 lives...
...with the prose, largely because it is so much less coherent. Sidney Goldfarb writes vividly and sometimes powerfully, as in "This You Told Me." But with most of the poems one is not always certain, after reading, just what they were about. Robert Dawson's "The Troll at the Toll," whether or not one understands it (I don't), is great...
...history. Scattered over 50,000 sq. mi., or more than half the state, the fires reduced vast forests of pine, cedar and eucalyptus to ashes, turned coffee plantations and pastures into scorched wastelands, devoured homes and destroyed thousands of head of livestock. Officials could only guess at the toll-uncounted millions in property damage, at least 78 people dead, thousands more injured, possibly 15,000 homeless...
...Health, Education and Welfare made a disheartening announcement last week: the U.S. death rate for infants under one year of age did not improve by a single percentage point during 1962. While the U.S. figure remains stuck at 253 first-year deaths for every 10,000 births (a toll of 100,000 babies a year), other countries are cutting their death rates and outstripping...
...television in the U.S. has never really paid. The sole system now operating in Hartford, Conn., has not begun to show a profit. But Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.,* publishers of classified telephone directories, and Lear-Siegler, Inc., electronics manufacturers, are confident that toll TV has a future...