Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the travails it caused travelers and shoppers, the cold carried with it a familiar deadly toll. In Grandview, Texas, an eight-year-old child died in a fire when her mother tried to use the kitchen stove as a heater. In Seattle, a bus driver collapsed and died while trying to shovel sand under his snow-locked bus. In all, more than 140 people died, victims in one way or another of the unusually bitter December...
...trouble began when one or possibly two suicide terrorists rammed a truckload of explosives into the U.S. embassy compound in Kuwait, badly damaging one of the buildings in a towering explosion. Five people, none of them Americans, were killed in the blast; the toll could have been much higher, but the driver aimed his truck at a three-story administrative annex rather than the crowded chancellery building. About an hour later, a similar car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy, blowing a 30-ft. hole in the wall surrounding the compound. A crystal chandelier crashed onto Ambassador Jean Bressot...
...former employee, doused the floor and stairs with gasoline. He then shot his pistol into a fuel can, instantly setting the place ablaze. Patrons mobbed exits and jumped from upper-story windows as the fire consumed four 17th century row houses in the brothel and casino complex. The toll at week's end: 13 dead, 25 injured...
...help, rescue teams and fire-fighting crews searched through the thick fog; they were eventually led to the scene of the accident by a survivor. Said Israeli Passenger Osant Berkowich, 32: "I could hear people shouting, 'Let me out, let me out.' It was horrible." The toll: 93 dead, 30 injured...
...pilot of the first theatrical Concorde," Hall fought with arts barons, trade unions and pretenders to his crown to see the National to its concrete home on the Thames. The psychic struggle took its toll: Hall describes himself as being "raw as burnt skin...