Word: firestorm
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...magnificent rococo art collections and baroque buildings. It had very little strategic value, especially that late in the war, and had escaped Allied bombing attacks until 1945. But for very dubious reasons, the Allies ruthlessly fire-bombed the refuges-packed city on February 13-14, 1945, creating a firestorm that could be seen for 200 miles. Though the numbers of deaths have been disputed, the figure quoted by historian David Irving, author of "The Destruction of Dresden," is 135,000--64,400 more than the death toll at Hiroshima a few months later...
...have sputtered out quietly, but due largely to Columbia President Michael I. Sovern's crisis mismanagement, it continues to occupy center stage in a media circus that shows only vague signs of abating. Unwittingly, Sovern has played into the protesters' hands, fanning the flames of controversy and prolonging the firestorm at Morningside Heights...
...Fires converge into a single firestorm. Heat from fire pumps a black column of smoke up through the troposphere. Some reaches the stratosphere...
...they prepared for Sunday night's Shootout, each side had been totally aware that it was High Noon of the presidential campaign. "This debate is the election," declared a Reagan adviser. Another decisive Mondale victory, predicted one of the Democrat's aides, would produce "a firestorm of excitement that takes on a life of its own." Psychologically, however, each camp faced a different task in grooming its man for the test...
Thinking of Orwell, what the Brown students did seems hopeless and misdirected. But at the same time that these students were "unrealistic," their protest represents a valuable rage against a world which frustrates peaceful change and promises a nuclear firestorm. It is true that an influential article in Scientific American may do more to prevent an anti-ballistic missile system (which will almost certainly make the world less safe) than a cyanide referendum at Brown. But such articles have been published, and the present administration still intends to develop defensive weapons. It is still within the realm of reason that...