Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...pedestrians passing in front of the Japan Air Lines office in downtown Moscow pause to ponder the tragedy of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. "Oh, is that the plane?" asks a wide-eyed schoolgirl. "It's so big." Murmurs her friend: "All those people." The exact death toll of 269 has not been made public to the Soviet people. "More than 200, I heard," offers a young man wearing an imitation-leather jacket. But even as he shakes his head, he echoes the brazen attitude that has been the official response of his country: "Such a plane should...
...from handicapped infants. This edict was followed by a tougher regulation requiring hospitals to post large signs in public places bearing the inscription "Discriminatory failure to feed or care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law." The posters provided the number of a 24-hour, toll-free hotline for anonymous informers who wanted to report violations to federal investigators...
...forces from the Beirut area and the Chouf to new positions along the Awali River, some 17 miles south of the capital, two more U.S. Marines and two more French soldiers were killed by artillery fire, presumably from Druze positions in the hills above Beirut. That brought the death toll among the multinational force to five Americans and 16 Frenchmen...
...whether Harvard got a quality product. Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses, he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way." Gund says, "The reason for some of the detail is to make it not look like a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...