Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nagasaki's Christian population, which for centuries has been the biggest of any Japanese city; its Oura and Urakami Roman Catholic churches, respectively the oldest and biggest in Japan, were also hit (both have since been rebuilt). Though Communist propaganda has placed Hiroshima's death toll as high as 250,000, a survey released last week by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission estimated that the first A-bomb claimed 68,000 lives...
...shared nightmare, in outlook and atmosphere there are hardly two more dissimilar cities in Japan. Hiroshima today is grimly obsessed by that long-ago mushroom cloud; Nagasaki lives resolutely in the present. Though in fact U.S. fire bombs took more lives more painfully in Tokyo than the combined death toll of both A-bombs, Hiroshima has made an industry of its fate-even to naming bars and restaurants after the Bomb. Comparing Hiroshima with other war-devastated cities, a U.S. casualty commission official noted: "This is the only city in the world that advertises its past misery...
...even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children carried in by their parents. In one Rio Grande do Norte town, the local priest reports that his church bells, which toll for the death of every child, toll all day long...
...city's broad Boulevard Joffre. six Moslems were shot dead as police and soldiers stood aloof. Brazenly, the S.A.O. bombed the heavily guarded 14th-floor office of Oran's new prefect. The day's toll: no dead throughout Algeria (104 of them Moslems), 140 wounded...
...After the war, many scientists, appalled at the human toll their work had taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deserted the field of nuclear-weapons development. Ogle was not one of them. Says he of the wartime deaths the bombs had caused: "Our purpose was to do just that." Congress placed atomic development under a newly created, civilian-controlled Atomic Energy Commission in the hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral...