Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN BROWN ANNOUNCED--twice--during the December debate that he had established a toll-free number for contributors to call, and when (amid the protests of moderator Tom Brokaw) he told his viewers what that number was, I found him obnoxious...
There are already hints that the consent decree may be taking its toll...
...bombing." Several of the eight captured airmen were tortured to tell where they had come from, and three were executed by firing squad. Worse, the Japanese army tried to punish all Chinese who might have helped the downed pilots, and the slaughter in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces took a toll estimated at more than 200,000. As often happened in this hate-filled era, each side angrily denounced the other's actions as atrocities...
...calories for office workers, 684 calories for children. In reality, far less food was available -- and proper nutrition in cold weather requires about 3,000 calories a day for a man. The official report of deaths for December was 53,000, and the winter would take an even greater toll...
...would suffer as many civilian deaths as Leningrad. Not Dresden, which was virtually flattened by bombers and where 30,000 died in one night of air raids. Not even Hiroshima, where about 100,000 were killed by a single bomb. In Leningrad the official Soviet death toll for the two-winter-long siege was 632,253, mostly of starvation. Other sources put the figure at more than 1 million...