Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Distraught relatives and rescue workers carried wounded women and children to safety over the scorched and maimed bodies of the dead. The toll: ten guerrillas and 15 innocent bystanders killed, 108 wounded. No well-known guerrilla commanders were among the casualties...
...massacre may signal a new phase of the Iranian revolution. Confronted by the growing power of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), who have assassinated some 200 officials and clerical leaders since June, Khomeini has responded with a campaign to round up and execute political enemies. The toll thus far: over 1,000 killed and 10,000 imprisoned. Observers in Tehran believe adverse reactions both within Iran and abroad to the spate of killing have driven Khomeini's forces to adopt the late Shah's clandestine methods...
Although coach Edie MacAusland thinks she has her strongest lineup since taking the helm of the Harvard field hockey team in 1979, she admits graduation has taken its toll...
Finally, poor distribution and simple inefficiency exact a gigantic toll. In some parts of the Soviet Union threshing is still carried on as it was 200 years ago. Foreign travelers report seeing old women in the fields flailing the grain with wooden paddles, then winnowing by throwing kernels and hulls in the air, letting the wind separate the two. Another not infrequent sight: grain combines mowing while collection trucks follow much too far behind. "The combines literally funnel the grain right back into the fields, missing the trucks completely," says one bemused Western specialist. Western estimates put waste at between...
...once likened himself to the Roman Emperor Titus (40-81 A.D.), who, like Moses, was an impresario of bricks and marble. The Moses empire embraced yachts, chefs, chauffeurs and 86,000 other minions. His power nominally depended on the chairmanships of obscure parks commissions and revenues from a toll bridge. In fact, he relied on a public as steadfastly admiring of him as he was contemptuous of them. He defied Governors and mayors for nearly half a century, outmaneuvered even Franklin D. Roosevelt, imposed his vision on millions of acres of New York City and State, and inspired the reshaping...