Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were quite prepared to kill civilians. Twelve rockets fell on the city. Some of them were confirmed to be Orkans, manufactured by Yugoslavia in partnership with Iraq, carrying antipersonnel warheads that spew out up to 288 deadly metal "bells," or bombs, packed with explosives and buckshot. The toll was six dead, 180 wounded...
...burials in Oklahoma City began -- first for tiny Baylee Almon, the one-year-old whose photograph, taken as she was lifted out of the rubble, was used to symbolize the city's loss on front pages worldwide. By week's end the death toll from the terrorist bombing of the federal building had passed 120. Rescue workers redoubled their efforts as they approached "the pit," a huge mountain of rubble at the center of the explosion where the building's Social Security office and day-care center had collapsed together and where many more dead were expected to be found...
Such rage may only deepen in the days and weeks to come, as more is learned about these men and their involvement in the nation's worst terrorist action ever, a crime that last week had left an official toll of 65 adults and 13 children dead and at least 100 still missing in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Although Nichols and his brother James are being held as material witnesses, their friend and associate McVeigh was charged, under Title 18 of U.S. Code, Section 844, with bombing a government building. According...
...ordeal took an obvious toll on thepresident. At one point during the Novembermeeting, Rudenstine looked down at the table andshook his head in dejection. Just days after themeeting, the University announced that thepresident would take a medical leave of absence torecuperate from severe fatigue and exhaustion...
...rescue exacted a physical toll on the dogs as well as they needed bandaging on their paws from the glass, concrete and nails they climbed over, Kluttz said...