Word: toll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a recluse could fail to know somebody who uses less ingenuity in living than in worrying and guarding against subtle hazards. Perhaps the surest sign that the admonitory mood is taking a toll is the fact that Americans have begun to write advice columnists about the problems that all the cautions cause. Warnings about cholesterol in eggs, nitrate in bacon, caffeine in coffee (and, a while back, risky chemicals in even the decaffeinated variety) have sapped the fun out of eating breakfast for some people, it seems. Wrote one such: "I'd try bread and water...
Only at night, with the embassy in flames, did the mob disperse, its passion spent. The toll of dead in the seven-hour rampage: one American Marine and an Army warrant officer, two Pakistani embassy clerks and two rioters...
...point Sanchez uses the phrase "permissive society," a sure sign of brain death. Living with the Stones seems to have taken its toll on Sanchez--he's already gray--and now he's looking for somebody to blame...
During the next five days, at least 100 protesters died as the new strongman used armor and fighter planes to crush a general strike called by the million-member Bolivian Central Labor Federation (COB). The death toll might have been higher had Natusch not stationed troops at the mines outside the capital to prevent militant workers from following their usual practice of heading for La Paz with satchels of dynamite whenever a coup takes place...
...course turned downhill through a wooded area, and with three quarters of a mile remaining, Jennings emerged alone. Beckford followed, but it became obvious that the hilly course was beginning to take its toll. With a half mile to go, the harriers still had to conquer two more hills. Hills, Beckford admits, are not her strong point...